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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] The Second Coming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Jun 8 09:24:42 2017
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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 13:24:38 +0000
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nIqolay Q:
> 'ej boghmeH betle'HemDaq yItlI'. [3]
>
> [3] I would appreciate any suggestions on how to better
> translate "slouch". {yIt} just doesn't seem to cut it.
How about *{yItHa'} - using {-Ha'} in the sense of "do wrongly" - which I've seen used for "stumble". To shift the idea to the subject we have {rIgh} "be lame": {yItHa' rIghwI'}. There's also {wanHa'} "be crooked/bent" (coined for Agnieszka back in 2012).
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