[85569] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: nuq bach?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Thu May 28 08:34:12 2009
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 08:31:31 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <f5b478ef0905272332h7d7914e3yda8b5b2c95e36cf6@mail.gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
qa'vaj wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Brent Kesler <brent.of.all.people@gmail.com
>> wrote:
>>
>> - {yaSvaD taj nobpu' qama'} <The prisoner gave the officer the knife>
>> - {chaHvaD Soj qem yaS} <The officer brings them food>
>>
>> The officer benefits from the prisoner giving the knife. They benefit
>> from the officer bringing food.
>>
> For me, this is a surprising development. But interesting as well.
>
> I would take away from this that {chaHvaD Soj qem yaS} is correct Klingon,
> but {chaHvaD tar qem yaS} would be (in the absence of context) incorrect
> usage.
"The officer brought them poison." Not incorrect, but possibly not what
you meant.
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David Trimboli
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