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Re: {Qub} {Har} {Sov} {tu'}

ngabwI' ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Newton" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: {Qub} {Har} {Sov} {tu'}


> > I also initially had a problem with {be'nalwI' DaSov'a'?} "Do you know
my
> > wife?", using the "kennen" sense of "know".
> > Once again, I overcame that. I'm now comfortable with {Sov} in the
"wissen"
> > and "kennen" senses.
>
> It's official, then, that {Sov} has both meanings? Or, at least, very
> widely accepted?

AFAIK, no, MO's never expounded along these lines. (Perhaps he has; we'll
know for sure w/ Voragh's post.) I meant only that *I* *personally* have no
problems with these meanings. It seems to be widely accepted, at least among
the speakers on this list. (Doesn't make it accurate, though)

--ngabwI'
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Klingon Language Institute
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