Re: Sovchu'wI' (a wise man)

["William H. Martin" <whm2m@server1.mail.virginia.edu>]

On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 20:27:43 -0800 (PST) TPO <cheesbro@rpa.net> 
wrote:

> >>> jatlh vav:
> >>> - "*cow* wIghaj. HuDvo' pumpu' 'ej Hegh.
> >>> QapmeH Sovbe'lu'bogh laHmajmey wIDubnIS."
> >>
> >>The father said, "We had a cow.  He fell from a hill and died.  We did not
> >>know,  in order to succeed, we needed to improve our abilities."
> >
> >    You got the idea. The last paragraph I would mean:
> >"In order to succeed, we had to develop our undiscovered abilities"
> >
> 
> I would have used [ tu' ] - "discover"  instead of [ Sov ].
> 
> mataHmeH  laHmeymaj tu'lu'pu'be'bogh wIDubnIS

And, of course, if you wanted to avoid a common grammatical 
error, you would have said:

mataHmeH laHmeymaj lutu'lu'pu'be'bogh wIDubnISta'.
                   ^^
The {-ta'} was just a bonus.
 
> In this context I also like the [ taH ]
 
jIQochbe'. bIwuqchu'.
 
> DloraH

charghwI' 'utlh