tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jul 24 18:15:28 1997
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Re: Skybox Card S9
|I wrote:
||>Okrand has described this very ceremony in Skybox card S9,
||>finessing the lack of a word for "row (of people)" - apparently {tlhegh}
||>"line, rope" wasn't quite right:
||> poSDaq nIHDaq je QamtaHvIS SuvwI'pu'. chaH jojDaq yItnIS lopwI'
||> "The initiate must pass through a gauntlet of warriors."
|
|charghwI' replied:
||Does the card really have a period there? That first
||mu'tlheghqoq has no main verb.
|
|When I got home I double-checked HolQeD 4.3 p.4 where cards S7-S9 were
|published. There is indeed a period after {SuvwI'pu'} though this may have
|been a typo. There's another typo three words later where Lawrence omitted
|a space: {jItnISlopwI'}. This sentence certainly makes more sense with a
|comma. Anyone actually have this card?
|
|Voragh
Speaking of typos I should have written {yItnISlopwI'}.
HIvqa' feqlargh.... uh, veqlargh.
Voragh