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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] paq'batlh: NEW USES OF KNOWN WORDS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Agnieszka Solska)
Sun Nov 27 13:11:50 2011
From: Agnieszka Solska <agnpau1@hotmail.com>
To: tlhIngan Hol mailing list <tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:11:34 +0000
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De'vID:
>This isn't quite a new use of a known verb, but {QaD} is used in the sense
>of "be safe, be protected" in the text.=A0 It jumped out at me since it's
>supposed to be "slang", so I had a hard time seeing either Kahless or Molor
>using it; or, if we go along with the story that the text is a modern
>translation of an ancient work, I found it difficult to believe that a
>serious academic translator would use a slang term.
Maybe we can take it as evidence that what once was slang is now standard.
'ISqu'
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