tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 03 06:44:48 1999

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Re: KLBC "Star Trek: Klingon"



On Tue, 2 Nov 1999 17:15:19 EST [email protected] wrote:

> jatlh *pagh:
> ><vID> means "be belligerent", not "be belligerent to", so
> >it really can't take an object. It would be kind of like saying "I scowl
> >you" in English - you can't scowl a person; you just scowl.
> 
> tlhIngan Hol "relate to"chu' QInvam, vaj tlhIngan Hol vIjatlh. Daj 
> ngoDHeyvam: <wot "transitive" 'oH "scowl"> ja' DIvI' Hol mu'ghomwIj, 'ach not 
> ngoDHeyvam vIQoypu'. ngoDHeyvam boQoypu''a'?

Qaghba' mu'ghomlIj. *be intransitive*bej mu' "scowl" jatlh 
*Oxford Concise Dictionary*wIj.
 
> - DujHoD

charghwI' 'utlh



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