tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 07 00:17:58 1997

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Re: KLBC naDev jIchu'



At 13:00 97-11-04 -0800, Dawut wrote:
}ghItlh Alan Anderson
}> ["Worf and Gowron. We're Klingons," says one Klingon truthfully.]
}> 
}> ja' charghwI':
}> ><wo'rIv ghawran je. tlhIngan maH!> ja' wa' tlhIngan 'ej vIt.
}> 
}> Remembering {DeSvetlh chop chev}, I'd add a sentence and lose a word: 
}> <...> ja wa' tlhIngan; vIt.
}
}{DeSvetlh chop chev}? "He bites that arm he separates"? vIyajbe'. 
}jIHvaD yIQIj.

It's clipped imperative, the correct way to address pets. From one of the
audio tapes.  It means "Bite that arm off"  literally "Bite that arm!
Separate it!"

Qov     [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian                 



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