tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 22 12:25:25 2012
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: mI' nagh
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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">> vIghel 'e' vIqawbe' 'ach pa' jISaHtaHvIS ghellu'. SaHlaw' je loghaD.<br>
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ngugh chaq pa' jISaH 'ach wotvam'e' jIghelbe' 'e' vIHonqu'.<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF15288"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> De'vID jonpIn [[email protected]]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 22, 2012 20:13<br>
<b>To:</b> [email protected]<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: mI' nagh<br>
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Philip Newton:<br>
> Someone (De'vID jonpIn?) asked Marc Okrand about {DIng} at the qepHom<br>
> wa'maHDIch (2011) in Saarbrücken.</p>
<p>vIghel 'e' vIqawbe' 'ach pa' jISaHtaHvIS ghellu'. SaHlaw' je loghaD.</p>
<p>Philip Newton:<br>
> I seem to recall that he agreed that it was intransitive (the spinning<br>
> thing {DIng}s, and the one who spins it {DIngmoH}s it), but am not<br>
> sure whether the answer might not have been the characteristical<br>
> noncommittal instead.</p>
<p>lugh {ghur vay'}, {vay' ghurmoHlu'}, {nup vay'}, {vay' nupmoHlu'} je 'e' maqbej MO. {jIr} rur {DIng} maq je 'ach rurchu' 'e' maqchu'be'. Sovchu'meH matlh'e' tlhobnISlaw'.</p>
<p>({matlh'e' tlhobnIS} is apparently an idiom meaning "to be characteristically noncommittal". {{:-) )</p>
<p>--<br>
De'vID</p>
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