tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 09 12:18:11 1998
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Re: jabbI'ID cha'
ja' charghwI':
> On Tue, 9 Jun 1998 09:53:39 -0700 (PDT) "Andeen, Eric"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > ... Also, for
> > seven days from now, you want <SochleS> rather than <SochHu'>. I used to
> > make this mistake all the time. I believe charghwI' has a way to
> > remember this; perhaps he will share it...
>
> It has been a while, but I think the way I used to remember it
> is that I work at the University of Virginia. We have football
> fans who will dress up in a tuxedo, paint half their face red
> and the other half orange and get drunk beyond the threshold of
> medical danger. These individuals call themselves "Wahoos".
>
> So, when I see {wa'Hu'}, I think of "Wahoo", and I don't have
> much trouble figuring out whether they should be associated with
> tomorrow or yesterday. These guys are not the future.
>
Or try the following:{Hu'} also means "get up", {leS} also means "rest". So,
if it's in the afternoon, you got up in the past and you will rest in the
future...
> Is that the reference you were remembering, pagh?
>
> > pagh
> > Temporary Beginners' Grammarian
>
> charghwI'
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