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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] KLBC : Sentences as objects
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (De'vID)
Thu Nov 19 04:04:02 2015
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:03:43 +0100
From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
To: tlhIngan Hol mailing list <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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On 19 November 2015 at 09:13, qunnoQ HoD <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:
> > DopDaq qul yIchenmoH QobDI' ghu'
>
> DopDaq = on/at the side
> qul = fire
> yIchenmoH = you create (imp.)
> QobDI' = when/as soon as it is dangerous
> ghu' = situation
>
> I can't figure out what this sentence is supposed to mean..
It's a proverb, and like with many proverbs, its literal meaning isn't
so directly related to what the speaker means in any particular
context. In particular, it's what's called a "replacement proverb".
These are a set of phrases that Klingons say after committing an
error. (In similar situations, a Terran might say "excuse me",
"pardon", "sorry", and so on.)
You have all the parts there. Put them together, and see what you get.
--
De'vID
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