tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 13 10:35:28 2009
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Re: Yet another newbie!
Tracy Canfield wrote:
> Since -Hom isn't merely "small", but "minor", perhaps "fine print"
> could be handled as
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> mu'HomHey
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> "apparently minor words".
majQa'! vIparHa'qu'!
This would seem to me to be correct since TKD (eg page 49) shows
examples with several rovers, such as {pIHoHvIpbe'qu'}.
/buSwI'
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> 2009/11/13 Karl-Filip Faxen <[email protected]>:
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>>Tracy Canfield wrote:
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>>>2009/11/13 Steven Boozer <[email protected]>:
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>>>>>I do not think I got it right, I think it should be:
>>>>> {mu'Hom laDlu'taHviS yeplu'qu'niS}
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>>>>"One must be very careful when (while) one reads the Dictionary."
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>>>>Ain't that the truth!
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>>>>A couple of points:
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>>>>"Dictionary" is {mu'ghom}. A *{mu'Hom} - {mu'} "word" + {-Hom} "diminutive" - would be a "wordlet, minor word, etc." (A grammatical "particle" perhaps?)
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>>>I took it to mean "fine print".
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>>maj! choyajpu'!
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>> /buSwI'
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