tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 02 12:56:47 2002
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Re: beachquestion #3
charghwI' wrote:
> > My girlfriend left me.
> > {mumej parmaqqaywI'}
> > Can the verb {mej} take an object?
{mej} "leave, depart"
Not that we've seen:
ghorgh mamej?
When do we leave? CK
vagh rep bImejnIS.
Check-out time is five a.m. CK
bImejDI' reH betleHlIj yItlhap
Never leave without your bat'leth. TKW
bImej
You leave. (STC: KLS)
>{lon} would likely be better.
>
> > What about "quit"?
> > {mubup'a'??}
>
>{lon} would likely be better.
Absolutely. Klingons don't use euphemisms.
{lon} "abandon"
may'Daq jaHDI' SuvwI' juppu'Daj lonbe'
When a warrior goes to a battle, he does not abandon his friends. TKW
> > She's gone.
> > When I use {loj}, does it mean the same, or is that only used if the
> > food on the table is "all gone"?
>
>We don't know. I don't know that it's been used in canon enough to judge
>well, though voragh can solve that mystery.
{loj} "be all gone" hasn't been used in canon. My feeling is that {loj} is
closer to {natlh} "use up, consume, expend" which has been used:
nIn Hoch natlhlu'pu'
All the fuel has been consumed. KGT
HoS law'qu' natlhmo' So'wI'
Due to the tremendous energy drain of a cloaking device... S33
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons