tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 07 05:44:09 1997
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Re: KLBC naDev jIchu'
- From: "Doneq" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC naDev jIchu'
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 14:45:22 +0100
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ghItlh Qov
> At 13:00 97-11-04 -0800, Dawut wrote:
Sorry, but I'm Dawut is someone else :)
> }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!"
I understand that now; but I still don't know why I should leave the
{'ej} out. I don't quite see the difference between {ja' 'ej vIt.}
and {ja'. vIt.} and why the latter may (or may not) be better. Or
just because it's shorter?
(Of course I see *some* difference; I know {'ej} isn't spelled the same
as {.} or {;} }}:-)
/Doneq
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