tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 18 10:27:25 2000
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RE: Klingon WOTD: jubbe' (v)
>> Klingon word: jubbe'
>> Part of Speech: verb
>> Definition: be mortal
peHruS:
> And just where does this leave {jubHa'}?
charghwI':
: I suspect that would describe the state that Q found himself in when
: The Continuum took away his immortality and his powers.
Or those gods (later angels) in romantic myths and stories who give up
immortality to be with the mortal they love. *{jubHa'} is an excellent example
of the "undo" sense of {-Ha'}:
"This negative suffix implies not merely that something is not done
(as does {-be'}), but that there is a change of state: something
that was previously done is now undone." (TKD p.47)
Klingon can often make some very nice and succinct distinctions that are more
wordy in English.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons