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Re: nuq bop bom: 'ay' loS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Stewart)
Thu Aug 25 11:47:42 2011

Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:37:49 -0700
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
In-Reply-To: <BAY166-W29BC550BCE0BE8341F14DCAA100@phx.gbl>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org

At 04:53 25/08/2011, you wrote:
>pov lutvam; vIlaD 'e' vItIv. tagha' qelqu'meH poH vItu'pu'.
>
>ghItlhpu' Qov, jatlh:
> >Sagh yaS wa'DIch 'ej ngoDmey neH jatlh. "jorpu' nuH HoS 'och. chavpu'
> >nIH HanDogh.
>
>{chav} "achieve" DaHechqu''a'?

chev vIHech.

> >jatlhtaHvIS yaS, Hu'meH vajar poS ghop lo' 'ej quchDajDaq ba'choH.
>
>{quch} "to kidnap"? {quS} 'oHnISlaw'.

quS vIHechbej. chay' vItu'be'? Huj Qaghmeyvam, 
qar'a'?  jIghItlhtaHvIS wab vIqel 'e' vItu'be, 'ach rurboghwabmey vItamtaH.

>  >qabDajDaq 'oy' luleghchugh chaq Duj Dotlhmo' 'oH 'e' luHar yaSpu'.
>
>I'm not sure I like {'oH} here without an explicit location to go with
>it. Assuming I'm reading this right ("if the officers saw pain on his
>face, they believed it was due to the ship's status"), {Duj Dotlhmo'
>'oH} seems incomplete to me stylistically; I would say {Duj Dotlhmo'
>pa' 'oHtaH}, with {pa'} referring back to {qabDajDaq}. But that's me.

I'll make it explicit and say Duj Dotlhmo' 'oy' 'e' luHar yaSpu'.

> >poSDaq tlhe'taHvIS loQ Qom 'ach Qom DeghwI' ghop 'e' leghlaH vajar.
>
>QaQ lo'vam! {Qom}meyvam vIparHa'.

Heh, bep vay' 'e' vIpIH, vIHbe'me' yuQ.

> >DIngba' Duj'e' 'a Do' Qapchu'mo' tlham ngab, yoylaw' Hovmey.
>
>{tlham ngeb} "artificial gravity"?

va. ngeb vIHechbej.

>Dajqu' - tugh qaSbogh vajar beqDaj je wanI' vISov vIneH!

Thanks for that. I definitely have a goal for the next installment. 
Fewer ... what do I call those?  They aren't typos. Similar sound 
substitutions?

- Qov





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