[3407] in tlhIngan-Hol
pegh in PK
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Feb 23 10:20:32 1994
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From: shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu (Mark E. Shoulson)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 10:07:52 -0500
Hey.
I was just checking out some stuff with the new words in Power Klingon (to
be appearing in a HolQeD near you sometime soon, we hope), and I realized a
usage I hadn't noticed before.
In the dialogue at the end, someone says "De' pegh vIghaj", which is
translated as "I have secret information". Now, "pegh" as a verb is
translated in the dictionary as "keep something secret" (i.e. I might say
"De'vam vIpeghqang" for "I am willing to keep this information secret").
This sentence clearly uses it adjectivally, meaning "be secret". It could
be a noun-noun construction, but somehow "I have the secret of information"
doesn't seem right; Okrand wouldn't have said that.
Just pointing it out to you folks.
~mark
