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RE: KLBC jIDel'egh

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: KLBC jIDel'egh
• Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 22:56:57 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

ja' nejwI':
> thlIngnan Hol qun vISovjajmeH <Hol Qed>mey ngo' vIlaDta'. tlhos tlhIngan
> Hol QIchmey ngu'chu'be' teSwIjDu' vaj "Conversational Klingon" "Power
> Klingon" vI'IjlI'.

ja' taD:
>In {vISovjajmeH}, both {-jaj} and {-meH} are type-9 verb suffixes, so you
>can't use them simultaneously. {-jaj} is used to mean "May it happen", like
>when giving a toast. In this case, however, {vISovmeH} ("so that I know it")
>is fine:
>{tlhIngan Hol qun vISovmeH,} "So that I know the Klingon language's
>history,"
>{<HolQeD>mey ngo' vIlaDta'} "I have read old HolQeDs."

I suspect the original {-jaj} should have been {-laH}.  In English,
sometimes "may" gets used to mean "can", and {...qun vISovlaHmeH...} would
work well here.

-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh

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