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Re: KBTP: cumulative vocabulary?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 2 22:31:05 1994

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From: joel peter anderson <joela@apertus.com>
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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 21:15:15 CST
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> > "QorghwI'wI'" gets the meaning across better than "DevwI'wI'", or perhaps
> > "muQorgh joH'a'".  "'oH" is the wrong pronoun for this: if you're using
> 
> Dev, "guide" appeals to me; lacking a 'real' word for shepherd, I chose 
> "guide", and you chose "take care"; maybe Ha'DIbaHyuvwI' would be better?  
> Lacking a lexicon at work, I forget, doesn't 'roi' for "my shepherd" come 
> from watch over?  Maybe something could be constructed to be "overseer?"

jIDogh.

I *DID* forget.... and when I got home I found "feeder of sheep" a 
better translation.  I'll stick with DevwI' for now just the same... I don't
think warriors *feed* sheep: Ha!  We shoot you!.....


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 jineHbe'! DevwI'wI' ghaH joH'a''e'!* The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want


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