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Re: Klingon WOTD: noH (verb)

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

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• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: noH (verb)
• Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 08:54:22 EDT

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In a message dated 10/3/2005 2:50:29 AM Central Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:


> ghItlh lay'tel SIvten:
> 
> > I could find only one instance of this verb in use:
> > 
> > chorghSaD qelI'qam HIvchuq 'e' vInoH.
> > Vixis: Estimating attack range in 8,000 kellicams.  
> > [discussed in HQ v8n4p12 (referring to ST5: Scene 122)]
> 
> Okay, this is "discussed", but is it canon?
> It does not follow grammar [but maybe that's what was discussed there? I
> don't have my HolQeD by hand]
> 
> It says literally "I estimate that 8,000 kellicams"
> What I mean is that (TKD): "Klingon has two special pronouns, {'e'} and
> {net,} which refer to the previous sentence as a whole."
> 
> {chorghSaD qelI'qam HIvchuq} is not a sentence, but a noun.
> 
> Quvar.
> 

I don't see why you say it's a noun.  I'm unclear about how {chorghSaD 
qelI'qam} fits in the sentence, but {HIvchuq} is just "(he/she/it/they) attack each 
other".  
There's really no discussion.  They're notes from Star Trek 5: The Final 
Frontier.  But it is canon.

lay'tel SIvten

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