tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 08 07:57:04 1997
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Re: choH yabwIj
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: choH yabwIj
- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 97 14:15:12 UT
[email protected] on behalf of [email protected] wrote:
> In a message dated 97-10-07 16:30:00 EDT, Eric Andeen writes:
>
> << cha'maHHu' choH yabwIj >>
>
> How did the operation go? Are you recovering well from brain surgery?
>
> Please see KGT p106 near the bottom.
*sigh* Here we have a discrepency in the transitivity of {choH}.
TKD simply lists it as "change." That's one of those iffy defintions. In
Star Trek V we hear Klaa say {HIv He yIchoHmoH} "Alter the attack course!"
which indicates that {choH} has the intransitive meaning. That is, the
subject is the thing that is changed. This is the meaning that pagh was
using. He was talking about his brain having changed, in that he is beginning
to read Klingon without translating it first.
In KGT you reference the contradictory canonical source, which shows that
{choH} also has the transitive meaning. That is, the object is the thing that
is changed, and the subject is the one who did it. I'm not sure how you get
your brain surgery joke from this, since {choH yabwIj}, according to this
definition, means, "My brain changed (something)."
SuStel
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