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vay'mey vItlhob

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Feb 10 17:22:55 1994

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From: shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu (Mark E. Shoulson)
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 17:16:47 -0500
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>From: mark <mark@dragonsys.COM>
>Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 12:22:11 EST

>ghItlh Marnen (jachqemwI'?):

>> choHlu'laHbe'qu'law'.

>Unfortunately, as has been batted around in here previously, lu'
>and laH can't go together.  They're both Type 5, for no evident
>good reason except that that's the way it is.  (Languages DO get
>perverse sometimes...)  See TKD 4.2.5, para. 1.  DoHa'.  It makes
>such useful constructions as yours impossible and forces us to
>look for other ways to express the meaning.  I rather like

>   choHlaHbe'qu'law' nuv

Or maybe "choHlaHlaw' pagh'e'", to avoid confusion about whether you're
talking about a specific nuv...

~mark


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