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RE: Question about Klingon books (e.g., Gilgamesh et al.)

Seruq ([email protected])



> The English is "He discovered what which was unseen" and the 
> Klingon is <leghbe'lu'wI' tu' ghaH>.  Doesn't this mean "He 
> found the unseer"?

N-wI' is not always a person.  It can be a thing.


> Ought it not be <leghbe'lu'ghach> or <leghbe'lu'bogh wanI'>?  
> Or is the passive/inverse meaning of -lu' take to its extreme here?

<leghbe'lu'ghach> is a noun referring to the action of not-being-seen.
<leghbe'lu'bogh wanI'> refers to an event, an occurance.

Seeing this I do ask myself about putting -wI' on a -lu'.  Can we do this?
I know... It is really really old tlhIngan Hol; no' Hol.


DloraH







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