tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 07 16:01:55 2004
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Re: Did Hoch, now pagh...
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- Subject: Re: Did Hoch, now pagh...
- Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 19:01:13 -0500
Quvar tlhob; ghItlh:
>At the qepHom, we also talked about the word {Hoch}, related to the
>question, if one could attach {-be'} to a noun like {Hoch}, meaning
>"not all". The answer is NO of course, but how do you say
>
> "Not all Klingons have a beard"
> (i.e. most do have, but not all)
>
>without getting the phrase
> "All Klingons don't have a beard."
> (i.e. no klingon has a beard)
{rol ghaj 'op tlhIngan 'ej ghajbe' 'op 'ach tlhIngan chaHtaH Hoch.}
Or more poetically:
{...'ach tlhIngan chaHlI' Hoch.}
-quljIb