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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: wej
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (De'vID)
Tue Apr 7 13:43:04 2015
In-Reply-To: <ACF6622D959A8842A81E4471BA56A7E04BD66725@xm-mbx-04-prod.ad.uchicago.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 19:42:49 +0200
From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@kli.org
On 7 April 2015 at 16:57, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Anthony:
>>> That would likely cause confusion with {wej} = "3".
>
> There's a good parallel with English "two, to, too" which are pronounced alike but rarely confused. (Also "not, knot, naught/nought" from the definition come to think of it!)
>
> As always... context, context, context!
wej SuvwI' vIlegh.
I don't see the warrior(s) yet.
OR: I see three warriors.
wej wa' SuvwI' vIlegh.
I don't see one warrior yet.
OR: I see the flavour warrior.
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De'vID
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