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Re: mech

ghunchu'wI' ([email protected])

• From: "ghunchu'wI'" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: mech
• Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:56:57 -0400
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On Oct 28, 2009, at 3:17 PM, qurgh lungqIj wrote:

> Do we have any canon on how to use mech?
> I'm trying to say "I want to trade my X for your Y". Is it as  
> simple as:
>
> DaqtaghlIjvaD betleHwIj vImech vIneH

I wouldn't expect this use of English "for" to match the Klingon {-vaD}.
Without specific official guidance, I'd probably consider the things  
being traded as a plural object and say it like this:

DaqtaghlIj betleHwIj je DImech vIneH.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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