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RE: jajwIj



jatlh ~mark:

> I think the correction was to use "puqloDwI'" instead of just "puqloD."  I
> don't think it's that necessary; who else's son would you be talking about?
> English is very big on obligatory marking of possession in cases like this
> ("take your hands out of your pockets") where it really isn't vital, and
> many languages do without (French, I think, would say "take the hands out
> of the pockets").  Insisting on it because English does doesn't accomplish
> much.

"The Dispossessed" qonbogh *Ursula LeGuin" vIlaDtaH.  bavchuqtaHbogh cha' yuQ 
tu'lu'.  wa'vaD *Anarres* ponglu'.  latlhvaD *Urras* ponglu'.  *Anarres*Daq 
chutmey tu'lu'be'.  qumtaH pagh.  che'taH pagh.  not Huch lo'lu'.  loHpu' 
tu'lu', 'ach Sapta'.  nughvam Dellu'meH "anarchist" jatlhlu'.  not ghob 'ach 
not Sach.

*Urras*Daq che'taH qum tIn.  verenganpu' DataH mIghwI'pu'.  Do'Ha' nughmaj rur 
nughchaj.  'IH mIpbogh yoSmey 'ej 'Itlh QeDchaj, 'ach reH ghob.

*Urras* SuchtaH *Anarres* tej.  *Urras* Hol ghojpu'.  ('oHvaD *Iotic* 
ponglu'.)  jatlhDI' *Urras*ngan <juHwIj>, jatlh *Anarres*ngan <juH>.  jatlhDI' 
*Urras*ngan <pa'wIj>, jatlh *Anarres*ngan <pa'>.  *Urras*nganpu'vaD 
jatlhtaHvIS tej, pIm pIj 'e' lIj, 'ej Qagh.  <pa' vIje'pu'be' vaj pa'wIj 
'oHbe'> jatlh.

'ach <ghopwIj>, <nachwIj>, <mInwIj> jatlh.  ghop je'be'lu'.  porgh je'be'lu'.  
(heh . . . nuj je'lu' . . . Huch 'ar?)

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SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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