tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 01 00:21:53 1997

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Re: KLBC: practise



At 01:18 97-09-30 -0700, you wrote:
}In a message dated 97-09-27 23:04:52 EDT, Qov answers Marian:
}
}<< vaj nIm vInobHa' . chIm. So I took the milk. It was empty
} 
} {nobHa'} means give back, un-give. To say "take," use {tlhap}.  Maybe also
} {lel} would be appropriate here. >>
}
}There is also {woH} for "picks up".  {lel} means "extract, take out".  I
}think this is more like taking a sword from a sheath than taking milk from a
}refrigerator.

{lel} is defined as "get out, take out," which seems to me to be exactly
what I do with milk and refrigerators.  I don't see it defined anywhere as
"extract."  

Qov     [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian                 



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