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Re: The meaning of -moH

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

David Trimboli wrote:
> We have one sentence, {ghaHvaD quHDaj qawmoH}, which supports either 
> argument (my god, I never thought I'd be pleased with that sentence). If 
> there is a canonical sentence of the form {puq ghojmoH yaS} my 
> hypothesis would be in doubt. Is there one?

I found one, but it's completely ambiguous. The end of Power Klingon has 
{batlh qaghojmoH}. Unfortunately, this could be either {batlh SoHvaD 
vIghojmoH} or {batlh SoH qaghojmoH} by the prefix trick (or even {SoHvaD 
batlh vIghojmoH} "I teach you honor," though we know that's not what was 
intended).

(Conversational Klingon also has {batlh qaghojmoHpu'}, which doesn't 
change anything.)

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