tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 29 23:48:34 2002
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Re: KLBC: chay' mu'meyvam lo'lu'?
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- Subject: Re: KLBC: chay' mu'meyvam lo'lu'?
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:48:27 EST
jatlh voragh:
> {bup} is not attested in canon. I would use {mev} "stop, cease" which is
well
> attested in canon, usually as part of a SAO with {'e'}.
vaj jIQaghlaw'pu'. For some reason I had marked {mev} intransitive in my
TKD. Or is it one of these verbs of variable transivity, like {So'}? Can
you say {jImev} "I stopped", or {jImev'egh} "I stopped myself", or both?
> This one's may be a problem. None of the examples of {pegh} "keep something
> secret, be secret, classified" I know of take an object:
<snip>
Okay. Perhaps the verb to use would be {So'}:
{jIrop 'e' vISo'} "I kept it a secret that I was sick."
Correct?
> We also have the verb {buv} "classify".
Could you clarify the usage of this verb too? I thought it was "classify"
like "Linnaeus classified the world's species", not like "I couldn't get the
government records because they were classified".
jIjatlh:
> 'ej: Holvam vIghojtaHmo' jISey. jIDubtaH 'e' vISov. batlh tuQaHtaH.
>
> I also wanted to say that I'm excited to be learning this language. I
> think I'm improving.
jatlh DloraH:
> The klingon says "I know I'm improving".
> The english says "I think I'm improving"; ... 'e' vIQub.
Oops. How ironic. ;P
-Sengval