tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 05 16:01:34 2002
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Re: KLBC: chay' mu'meyvam lo'lu'?
From: <[email protected]>
> Given the gloss "keep something secret", I've really wanted this to be a
> transitive verb, but all usage I've ever noted has been intransitive. As
voragh
> notes, you need {-moH}.
I disagree. Canon doesn't prove that /pegh/ can't work the way TKD
suggests. It just proves that it can work in another way. I would fully
accept
nuH vIpegh.
I keep the weapon secret.
I suspect that Okrand simply never needed to use /pegh/ this way, and so
hasn't. He probably needed "be secret" for Conversational Klingon (/pegh
De'vetlh/, "That is classified information"), and extended the meaning of
/pegh/. This doesn't invalidate the original meaning.
SuStel
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