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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] potlh De'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (De'vID)
Thu Aug 17 11:38:49 2017
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From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:38:45 +0200
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On 17 August 2017 at 16:40, Lieven <levinius@gmx.de> wrote:
> While look at some canon phrases, I stumbled over a phrase from ST5:
> {yo'SeH yaHnIvvo' potlh De' wIHevtaH.}
> "We are receiving a priority message from Operations Command."
>
> I would have said {De' potlh} "important data" here.
Obvious, this is military argot for some high-priority information in
a hierarchy where the lowest level is {tu'HomI'raH De'}.
> Is this an error, or is it just not much difference between "important data"
> and "data about something important"?
There's a subtle difference: {potlh De'} is about something important
(it's about a *thing*), whereas {De' potlh} is important but not
necessarily about *something*.
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De'vID
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