tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 12 20:37:49 1997
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Re: KLBC: (Requiem) wej'DIch 'ay'
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: (Requiem) wej'DIch 'ay'
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 97 18:44:48 UT
[email protected] on behalf of Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> >Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 09:09:03 -0700 (PDT)
> >From: Qov <[email protected]>
> >
> >At 09:58 PM 9/8/97 -0700, Edy wrote:
> >>Hoch chavmeymaj ngaSchu'bogh paqna' tu'lu'. poSchoHDI' 'oH vaj tagh yojwIh
>
> >>ba'pu'DI' noHwI' paqna' laDchoHlu'chu'. bIjDaj popDaj joq Hev Hoch
> One comment I didn't see made relates to the use of -na' here. When you
> say "paqna'", you're not really saying "a *particular* book", it means "a
> book, nothing more or less, definitely a book and not something else[...]
> Or is that what you meant? Do other Klingonists read this the same?
I agree. It seems that the word should be left alone ({paq}), or perhaps even
given the augmentative suffix ({paq'a'} "great book").
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