tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Feb 28 15:02:04 1997
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Re: ram chal wanI'
Lawrence writes:
>> DIch vIghajbe'.
>
>This is on my list of grammatical details I want to pry out of Okrand.
>Does one "possess" certainty? (This by the way is precisely the sort of
>word I'd expect to find a Klingon verb for). You can argue that while
>this is an abstraction, one can possess it just as we can say one
>possesses honor (no TKD or TKW handy, but I'm fairly certain [sic] that
>we have canonical examples using "have" with honor). But does that make
>it appropriate to use with "DIch?" I understood what DaQtIq intended,
>but I don't know if it's grammatical. SuStel? Seqram?
It sounds exactly as grammatical to me as {pIch vIghajbe'}, which
appears on Page 1 of The Klingon Dictionary. I accept it.
-- ghunchu'wI'