tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Oct 14 17:42:21 2002
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Re: KLBC: Two quick questions
- From: "Steel Rat" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Two quick questions
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 17:28:57 -0500
you have been talking to steve too much.
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Original Message
From: ""<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: KLBC: Two quick questions
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:47:12 -0400
>ghItlh Holtej:
>>
>>
>> ghItlh qurgh:
>>
>> >The first one is from HoD Qanqor's article.
>> >
>> >He mentions a formula which I haven't seen before:
>> >
>> ><verb>meH Qu'
>> >
>> It's times like this I wish the search function on the list archives was
>> working again. I believe this idea was proposed/developed by charghwI',
the
>> master recaster, as a way to express ideas like "It's difficult to kill
a
>> Klingon" or "Killing a Klingon is difficult." charghwI' had spent a lot
>> time thinking about the use of {-meH}, in particular how it behaves when
>> modifying nouns rather than verbs.
>
>Not to take anything away from charghwI', but the idea actually originated
>with MO, in his response to charghwI's question about how to say "It's too
>late to visit you", which MO rendered as {paSqu'mo', nargh qaSuchmeH 'eb}.
>After that, charghwI' (and later, I) provided some interpretation of this
>and of {-meH} in general in HolQeD.
>
>-- ter'eS
>
>http://www.geocities.com/teresh_2000
>http://www.geocities.com/weseb_2000
>
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