tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Oct 19 09:58:47 1997
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Re: KLBC: Some phrases.
On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Neal Schermerhorn wrote:
|ghItlh Qov:
|>{tlhInganpu'vaD Qo'noS} this is a sentence fragment as much as the
|>English is, but it could be taken as part of any
|>expression like {tlhInganpu'vaD Qo'noS wIneH/wIchoq/wIpol/wIHub ...}
|>so it seems perfectly acceptable.
|
|The very first Klingon canon I ever learned - <nuqDaq yuch Dapol?> - tells
|me (at least; perhaps others too?) <pol> means something different than what
|you imply above. Seems to me it implies volition on the part of the subject
|as to the location of the object. Your use seems to translate another sense
|of "save" or "keep" where we are maintaining a usage which began before the
|fact. More like "Keep Christmas with you" or "Keep on truckin'".
FWIW, KGT gives us {polHa'} as "discard" (v).
Voragh