[87656] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Hypothetical (reconstructed) vocabulary?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Everson)
Tue Jan 12 16:03:14 2010
From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <C305E6BD33E2654DAE1F8F403247B6A60113A1A56605@EVS02.ad.uchicago.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:01:27 +0000
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On 12 Jan 2010, at 20:24, Steven Boozer wrote:
> Voragh:
>>>> Over the weekend I began compiling a list of hypothetical
>>>> (reconstructed) vocabulary, chiefly from compound nouns.
> Michael Everson:
>>> Not that I am in a position to propose anything, but I've always
>>> though
>>> that "lIl" would be an excellent word for "difficult to discern;
>>> illegible".
>
> majha'! vIparha'qu'!!
I'm afraid I can't parse this. What do you mean by "ha'"?
Good ha'! I dislike it a lot ha'!
I thought it might be -Ha' 'undo', thus:
Ungood! I undislike it a lot!
But that doesn't make sense to me.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/