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Re: "rutlh"

Scott Willis ([email protected])

• From: "Scott Willis" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: "rutlh"
• Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:15:02 -0500
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Boozer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: "rutlh"


> ngabwI':
> > >> pumDI' rutlh qechvam rap vIchup je jIH.
> >
> >"When the wheel fell, *I* also suggested this same idea."
> >
> >I thought possibly {pum rutlh} was an idiom for a particular event
> >happening, like {ngaQ lojmIt}, but without the finality, or possibly as a
> >"finished" counterpart to {vIH gho}.
>
> Excellent guess.  You're beginning to think like a Klingon (or, at least,
> Marc Okrand)!

choquvmoH (I think) }}: P
>
> >But I've not heard this idiom before. (Not that that means
anything) }}: )
>
> Okrand introduced it on startrek.klingon (05 Nov 1999):

HIvqa' veqlargh! As always, very helpful, Voragh. I wish I knew this one
earlier, there have been many times I wanted to say "by that time". And the
fact the noun can be switched out gives me ideas. }}: )

--ngabwI'
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