tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 10 10:46:18 2012
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] wojmoHwI' yupma'
>>> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Gaerfindel <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> chorgh ram maw' tIv law' wa' jaj tIv puS.
>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:51 AM, De'vID <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> "Eight crazy nights are more {tIv} than one day." I don't quite get
>>> this because {tIv} "enjoy" is not a "quality" verb. Presumably you
>>> intend something meaning "be enjoyable". Maybe {belmoH}? I'm not
>>> sure that works in a {law'}/{puS} construction though.
> On 12/10/2012 12:01 PM, Alan Anderson wrote:
>> I'm guessing something else is wrong as well. I don't know why {maw'}
>> "be crazy, insane" would be there -- is it a typo (or dictionary
>> lookup error) for {may'} "battle"? The intended meaning completely
>> escapes me.
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Gaerfindel <[email protected]> wrote:
> There's no mistake. It's a reference to an Adam Sandler song.
I found lyrics to Sandler's "The Hanukkah Song", which does contain
the phrase "eight crazy nights." I have to assume that's the song
you're talking about. The only thing I see in it that hints at being
ungrammatical on purpose is the addition of "-anukah" in places to
force a rhyme.
What were you trying to say?
-- ghunchu'wI'
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