tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jul 11 12:04:08 1997
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Re: KLBC: qIm/qImHa'
ja' ~mark:
>{De' pegh Sovlu'DI' chaq Do'Ha'}, secrecy proverb.
>
>Hmm. I wonder if that's not an idiomatic N-N construction? Not "secret
>information" but "the secret of some information", used idiomatically.
>We've long considered it a verb, though. Maybe we should re-think it.
I suggested something like this last year, but another canon phrase was
quoted at me that can't be interpreted this way: {pegh De'vetlh}.
-- ghunchu'wI'