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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Beginners corner

Robyn Stewart (robyn@flyingstart.ca) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']

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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>batlh bInID.  &lt;X maHbe’&gt; for “we are not X” is a correct and useful pattern, and you chose a plural suffix that refers to speaking beings.<br><br>Use loDHom only if you’re addressing an actual boy.  It’s not a way a man is addressed in Klingon.<br>Qul is a verb meaning “research.”   Perhaps you made a typo for Qun, meaning “god”?<br><br>I’m guessing the phrase is a quotation, meaning “We’re not perfect” or even “we fight dirty.”  Lacking a Klingon theology that  includes angels, I probably would use an expression conveying the same idea rather than trying to construct a term for righteous minions of a benevolent deity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>- Qov<br><br> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Maxim Sonin [mailto:maxim.sonin@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> August 4, 2015 1:01<br><b>To:</b> tlhingan-hol@kli.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Tlhingan-hol] Beginners corner<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p>&quot;We are not angels, boy&quot;: mugh jInID.<br>&quot;loDHom, Qulpu' maHbe'&quot;: jIchenmoH.<br>choQaH.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>
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