[86622] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: The meaning of -moH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Mon Oct 5 13:49:01 2009
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:45:44 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <4AC63307.8090303@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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David Trimboli wrote:
> We have one sentence, {ghaHvaD quHDaj qawmoH}, which supports either
> argument (my god, I never thought I'd be pleased with that sentence). If
> there is a canonical sentence of the form {puq ghojmoH yaS} my
> hypothesis would be in doubt. Is there one?
I found one, but it's completely ambiguous. The end of Power Klingon has
{batlh qaghojmoH}. Unfortunately, this could be either {batlh SoHvaD
vIghojmoH} or {batlh SoH qaghojmoH} by the prefix trick (or even {SoHvaD
batlh vIghojmoH} "I teach you honor," though we know that's not what was
intended).
(Conversational Klingon also has {batlh qaghojmoHpu'}, which doesn't
change anything.)
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