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RE: KLBC:Eating.



: jatlh 'oghwI':
:> Do we have any canon of tlhIch?
: 
: jISovbe'.

jISov jIH.  There's no canon for the noun {tlhIch} "smoke".  I have seen
{tlhIchmey} used informally and completely non-canonically for cigarettes,
which are sometimes called "smokes" in US slang.
 
:> Is there a way of saying "I use this to do <something> to that"?
: 
: There certainly is. Just plain "I use X" is obviously <X vIlo'>. "I use X to
: Y" - or to be more explicit "I use X in order to Y" - is <jI-Y-meH X vIlo'>.
:
: pagh

DloraH added:
: Don't forget he wanted a "... to that".  You need another object and a -vI.
: That vI-something-meH this vIlo':
:
: 	targh vIHoHmeH taj vIlo'
: 	I use the knife to kill the targh.

Some people use {X vIlo'taHvIS...} "While (I am) using X..." to translate
instrumental phrases:

	taj vIlo'taHvIS targh vIHoH.
	I killed the targ (while) using a knife.


-- 
Voragh                       
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons



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