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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] When I said.. You said..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Sat Oct 7 14:42:10 2017
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Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 20:42:13 +0200
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Am 07.10.2017 um 20:22 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:
> At star trek discovery, there is the sentence:
>
> {buQwI'vam 'omlu'meH wa' mIw tu'lu'}
> there is one way to confront this threat
>
> Can someone explain, why {buQwI'} means "threat", and not "threatener" ?
This is actually easy to answer: It's the english which is confusing,
not the Klingon. In the phrase, they are talking about the federation,
which is the threatener indeed.
So there is nothing wrong with the {buQwI'}, the "one who is threatening."
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Lieven L. Litaer
aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany"
http://www.klingonisch.net
http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/StarTrekDiscovery
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