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Re: KLBC: qIm/qImHa'



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'






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