tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jul 12 09:05:36 1997
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Re: KLBC: qIm/qImHa'
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: qIm/qImHa'
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 12:05:40 -0400 ()
- Priority: NORMAL
On Fri, 11 Jul 1997 12:37:27 -0700 (PDT) Alan Anderson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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}.
You wouldn't happen to remember the SOURCE of that canon, now
would you?
> -- ghunchu'wI'
charghwI'