tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu May 29 23:43:50 2003
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Re: tlhobqa'qu' taghwI'
>:From: [email protected]
>:Newsgroups: msn.onstage.startrek.expert.okrand
>:Date: December 12, 1996
>:[...]
>:Which brings us to the verb. You use {qIb}, "be preferable,"
>:adjectivally ({jarlIj qIb} is "your preferable month").
ja' 'ISqu':
>mu'vam vISovbe'. mu'ghomDaq mu' {qIb} tu'lu' 'ach DIp 'oH. "galaxy" 'oS.
>naDev jaS mu'vam lo'law' MO. "be preferable" 'oS {qIb}. wot 'oH.
>canon 'oH'a' wotvam'e'?
>
>Is the verb {qIb} "be preferable" part of canon?
ghobe'. bachHa'pu' neH Marc Okrand.
It's "canon", but it's obviously a mistake. Treat it the same way you do
the mistranslation of {Hagh} as "study" in the text of TKD.
-- ghunchu'wI'