tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Sep 14 11:33:06 1997
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Re: KLBC: (Requiem) wej'DIch 'ay'
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: (Requiem) wej'DIch 'ay'
- Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 11:33:00 -0700 (PDT)
At 08:56 PM 9/12/97 -0700, SuStel wrote:
>[email protected] on behalf of Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
>> >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").
I certainly don't disagree with your comments on what it implies. Edy will
have to decide whether his original in both places stresses the genuineness
of the book.
Qov ([email protected])
Beginners' Grammarian