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RE: gha'tlhIq

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Fri Sep 3 16:56:47 2010

From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 15:52:05 -0500
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=x+RLJ6S7=3U6DV69GPYMG2h8ko798VjTW17vo@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org

lojmIt tI'wI' nuv:
>> The time stamp doesn't work for me. {tujbogh pem nI' po} has the adjective
>> {nI'} between two nouns that I would otherwise take to be a noun-noun
>> construction. That doesn't work. There can be no words between words
>> in a noun-noun construction.

ghunchu'wI':
>It works fine for me. It apparently works for Okrand as well, since the
>recent {'u' ghe'naQ jabbI'ID} includes the phrase {poH tuj bI'reS}.

For those who didn't see it, here's the relevant bit of Okrand's Invitation:

  ghorgh lumuch? 
  When, you ask?

  poH tuj bI'reS nungbogh wa' jaj qeylIS DIS chorghvatlh loSmaH jav qaStaHvIS.
  In the days that follow the summer solstice in the Year of Kahless 846.

  ghe'naQ Daqvo' QInvam wIlab. 
  We will place a homing device transmitting this message at the site of the opera.

  etc.

--
Voragh                          
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons




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