tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Apr 22 13:59:52 2004
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Re: Headless relatives and {SuDbogh Dargh 'ej wovbogh}
- From: "QeS lagh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Headless relatives and {SuDbogh Dargh 'ej wovbogh}
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 06:54:41 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Voragh:
>If you don't like this use of {'ej}, another way we've seen is to link the
>two {-bogh}ed verbs with {je} as if they were nouns, as in this example
>from the Anthem:
> yoHbogh matlhbogh je SuvwI' Say'moHchu' may' 'Iw
> The blood of battle washes clean the warrior brave and true.
>which even more people have found bizarre.
SuStel, Dar'Qang and I rehashed this one about a month ago. :) I think that
all three of us ended up pretty much agreeing that {yoHbogh matlhbogh je
SuvwI'} was a way of shoving this idea into a decent-sounding poetic meter.
As you said, we all found it a bit weird.
QeS lagh
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