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RE: chotwI'/mang

• From: "DloraH" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: chotwI'/mang
• Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 18:04:26 -0400
• Importance: Normal
• In-Reply-To: <a05111b0bb961ba985275@[151.25.221.31]>

> i stand corrected. (does this english idiom mean: "ok, you're right, 
> i accept the correction you made"?)

Yes.

 
> >  > >maHvaD DuH'a' roj?  "Is peace possible for us?"
> >  > >
> >>  >QaQ roj.  qaq rojna', 'ach ghaytanHa' roj qo'vam.
> >>
> >>  (doesn't there have to be a verb in /ghaytanHa' roj qo'vam/, or can
> >>  /ghaytanHa'/ mean "to be unlikely"?)
> >
> >/roj/ is both a noun and a verb.
> >roj - "peace" (noun)
> >roj - "make peace" (verb)
> 
> ah yes. so /'ach ghaytanHa' roj qo'vam/ means "but it's unlikely that 
> this world makes peace", right?

"... will make peace" is what I was thinking.

 
> >  > 'ach latlh Doch.
> >>  but that's another thing.)
> >
> >there is no verb.
> 
> -> /'ach latlh Doch 'oH./

maj.


DloraH, BG

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