tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 23 19:37:11 1997
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Re: KLBC: ghomvaD wa'DIch jabbI'IDwIj
>Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 20:13:09 -0800 (PST)
>From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
>
>On Friday, March 21, 1997 5:05 AM, [email protected] on behalf of Irmgard
>Pohrer wrote:
>
>> ghItlh maqlIy:
>> tugh paqqaHHom chu' wIpoS.
>> Soon we'll open a new departmental library.
>
>"Open" is used in English to mean "start an institution's processes," or
>something like that. There is no reason to believe that Klingon {poS} acts in
>the same way.
>
>tugh paqqachHom chu' wIchenmoH.
>We will soon open a new departmental library. (Cause one to take form.)
I'm fond of the verb "cher" in this situation. "chenmoH" can be overused.
>{Hoch} means "all, everything." Use it as the subject of {Dal}. You cannot
>add both the subject {Hoch} and the subject {bIH}; you must choose one or the
>other.
At least, not so far as we know for certain...
~mark