tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 04 14:50:54 1999
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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.
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons