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Re: Yet another newbie!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Krenath)
Fri Nov 13 13:27:41 2009

From: Krenath <krenath@gmail.com>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:23:48 -0500
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Or << mu'HomHeymey >> since there is more than one word.

Or perhaps << mu'tlheghHomHeymey >> ... "apparently minor sentences"





On Nov 13, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Tracy Canfield <toastrix@gmail.com> wrote:

> Since -Hom isn't merely "small", but "minor", perhaps "fine print"
> could be handled as
>
> mu'HomHey
>
> "apparently minor words".
>
> 2009/11/13 Karl-Filip Faxen <kff@sics.se>:
>> Tracy Canfield wrote:
>>> 2009/11/13 Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>:
>>>
>>>>> I do not think I got it right, I think it should be:
>>>>>  {mu'Hom laDlu'taHviS yeplu'qu'niS}
>>>>
>>>> "One must be very careful when (while) one reads the Dictionary."
>>>>
>>>> Ain't that the truth!
>>>>
>>>> A couple of points:
>>>>
>>>> "Dictionary" is {mu'ghom}.  A *{mu'Hom} - {mu'} "word" + {-Hom}  
>>>> "diminutive" - would be a "wordlet, minor word, etc."  (A  
>>>> grammatical "particle" perhaps?)
>>>>
>>>
>>> I took it to mean "fine print".
>>>
>>
>> maj! choyajpu'!
>>
>>   /buSwI'
>>>
>>>
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