tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Mar 01 17:45:03 1997
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Re: Hol vIlo' (was Re: Holna' wIlo'bejtaH)
- From: Daniel Noll <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Hol vIlo' (was Re: Holna' wIlo'bejtaH)
- Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 11:44:54 +1000
I wrote:
>> Wait a second, it does depend how you use it. You could be saying that
"it is
>> a good night", in which case it would be perfectly correct, qar'a'?
A. A. wrote:
> Nope. With the grammar I know, {maj ram} can only mean something like
> "Fine, it's not important." {maj} is an exclamation; it's not a verb.
Bugger. I guess I'll blame this on Okrand. When you listen to Conversational
Klingon it lists a few words which he says are "in pairs", ie "opposites".
He lists good (maj) and bad (qab) as opposites, and since I knew {qab} was a
verb "be bad" I assumed quite incorrectly that its "opposite" must also be.
Is it possible that Okrand himself misreferred something here??
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