tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Dec 26 05:24:13 1999
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jatlh chargwI'...
- From: Mark A Miles <[email protected]>
- Subject: jatlh chargwI'...
- Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 13:23:54 +0000 (GMT)
jatlh chargwI':
> > jenwI' mupongnISqu' tlhInganpu'
>
> "Klingons MUST call me {jenwI'}." I accept this, using the
hmmm... I was trying for "Klingons should call me <jenwI'>"
> > DaH "Edinburgh" yoSvo' Sum juHwIj.
>
> "Now, my home is near Edinburgh."
>
Well it's not necessarily "near"... I was trying for My home is near
Edinburgh region (I was reading KGT, pp. 16-17) at this point.
> Okrand tells us this should be {yoSDaq} and not {yoSvo'}. You
-Daq really confuses me... Is it/can it used in *all* circumstances?
> > DaH DuSaQ'a'Daq jIHaD.
>
> Now, I study at a major school.
I was trying for "University"... Any ideas?
> *Tibet* vItlhabmoH 'e' vInID.
I get what you're saying about the type 7 suffix... Is it a good rule of
thumb that if I'm trying to say "I x (to) y" then I use <*y* 'e' *x*>?
> > DaHjaj "Day of Honour" paq vIje'pu'.
> and also times when you had not purchased it yet. The main point
> here is that if you include {-pu'}, some people will cheer you
I actually think I was wrong to put on <'pu>... To my mind now it infers
that I have *completed* buying it (as if it was on hire-purchase!).
<snigger>
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