tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 28 12:56:48 2000
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RE: 2 cents
- From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: 2 cents
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:58:21 -0700
jatlh Say'IluD:
> De'vID, choDuQ. *2 cents* Hech 'e' DaSuv 'e' vISuvbej.
> qar'a'? chaq yajlu'meH *cha' DarSeQwIj vIghaq* ja'lu''a'?
> ---
> De'vID, you crack me up. I'm sure that you know that he
> meant *2 cents*. Right? Perhaps one could say *Here's my
> 2 cents*.
> (btw, I couldn't put a *laH* in there to add the *could*
> concept, so I added the *yajlu'meH* to get the idea across.
> jIQap'a'?
HIja'. I don't think the <chaq> fits very well though. You could drop the
<chaq> or drop the <-'a'> and make it a suggestion rather than a question.
> I'm not sure of the origin of the expression "2
> cents worth", so I don't know how well anyone would
> understand the colloquialism anyway. I've re-read the
> idiom section of KGT and found no equivalent.)
> pabpo'pu'
> grammarians:
> *ghaq* wot tlha'laH'a' DIp
> can the verb *ghaq* have an object?
That would be <DIp tlha'laH'a' wot *ghaq*> - OVS. And yes, it can.
> lugh'a' *'e'* tlhegh
> is the *'e'* string correct?
HIja'. <Suv> should of course be <Sov>, and I had some trouble, but it was
in figuring out what you were responding to, since you didn't quote. The
grammar was fine.
pagh
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