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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] The Legend of Gorath part 1

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SuStel)
Sat Mar 22 11:32:09 2014

Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:31:29 -0400
From: SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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On 3/22/2014 10:40 AM, Brad Wilson wrote:
> I originally had {yItam} for "be still", but I wanted to emphasize the
> movement not just silence, since {yItam} is used later in the story
> specifically for silence. I overlooked {yItaD} because I was only
> reading it in the "ice" sense.

While {yItaD} is the correct idiomatic choice in this case, be aware 
that in general when you are commanding someone with a verb of quality, 
you need to add {-'egh} and {-moH} to it: {yItam'eghmoH} "silence 
yourself!" This rule comes from KGT. {yItaD} "be frozen!, don't move!" 
is an idiomatic exception to the rule.

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SuStel
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