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Re: nuq bop bom: 'ay' wa'maH wa'

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Stewart)
Thu Sep 1 12:38:35 2011

Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:28:27 -0700
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
In-Reply-To: <BAY166-W358C843FDB101239284ED8AA190@phx.gbl>
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Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org

At 02:41 01/09/2011, you wrote:

>See, you have the luxury of not being constrained by rhyme or meter, so I'm
>really finding it hard to offer much comment on your structure. :)

QaplI' DupwIj. ghItlhlIj vIpojlI'mo' ghItlhwIj'e' DapojqangchoH. bIwIHlaH.

>Plus the
>story is sucking me in. I'm too impatient for serials...

Hoch vIlI'chugh, QaghmeywI' vISambe' 'ej lut QIv DaHev. 'ej 
vIqonlI'mo' lut naQ DaHevpa' bIloSqu'nIS

>ghItlhpu' Qov, jatlh:
> > quq wej ghelwI'. "qaStaHvIS nuq?"
>
>I'm not a big fan of this use of quq

I'm not a big fan of quq in general. I just wish it were an adverb. 
If the events X and Y are verb phrases, as events are wont to be, I 
say:  "X 'ej Y. quq."  If I somehow force X and Y into being nouns 
phrases then I get to say "quq X Y je."  Maybe

ghelchoHDI' wej nuv, quq ghoghmeyDaj.

qaq'a'?

- Qov 





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