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tInwI'bID Ha'DIbaH qu' je

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Feb 2 21:31:52 1994

Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu (Mark E. Shoulson)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 14:19:49 -0500
In-Reply-To: Nick NICHOLAS's message of Sun, 30 Jan 94 23:55:55 EDT <1994013012
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>From: nsn@vis.mu.OZ.AU (Nick NICHOLAS)
>Date: Sun, 30 Jan 94 23:55:55 EDT

>batlh choja', Mark E. Shoulson quv:

>=>=Ha'DIbaHvam pujlaw' qar'a' tlhob'egh
>=>pujlaw' qar'a' Ha'DIbaHvam
>=No, {pujlaw' Ha'DIbaHvam qar'a'}.  See page 179.  The tag sentence "qar'a'"
>=follows the previous sentence, it doesn't intervene inside it.

>Um, Mark, I *am* looking at page 179. At the example "De' Sov qar'a' HoD".
>"qar'a'" can follow the verb. qayajHa''a'?

Hmm, so it does.  I must have missed that even when I looked it up to
double-check.  I guess I'm so used to hearing it the other way.

>=or better, avoid the "-ghach" with "-mo'".  Something like "bIlay'pu'mo'
>=yIta'" (or replace "ta'" with an appropriate verb).  Think like charghwI'.

>Well, yes, you *could* do that, I suppose... ;)

There are worse methods... :)

~mark


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