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Re: Object wIjatlhlaH'a'



>Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 23:39:55 -0700 (PDT)
>From: [email protected]
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>In a message dated 97-06-09 11:23:43 EDT, ~mark writes:
>
><< Word-protest?  Huh? >>
>
>No, not "word-protest."  "Word arrangement."  {may'morgh} means "battle
>array"; and, it is a noun.  The mu'mey are being used in a discussion, a
>battle of words and ideas regarding how to say something in tlhIngan Hol.

Interesting, though it demonstrably has its shortfalls.  I wasn't being
perverse; I truly didn't understand what your construction meant.  That
tends to speak against its utility as a communicative method.

>chay' "arrangement, layout, pattern, word order" luDel Qo'noS nganpu' 

wotmey vIlo' jIH.  {*HoD Sop naHmey} vIlaDDI', "tlha'Ha'chuq mu'mey"
vIja'.  

~mark


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