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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] qo''e' tu'bogh pagh - 'ay' cha'maH chorgh

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (De'vID jonpIn)
Sat Mar 10 16:45:56 2012

In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20120308181943.052644b0@flyingstart.ca>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:45:42 +0100
From: "De'vID jonpIn" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
To: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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De'vID:
>> bIjvam nob bo'DIjvam: naDevvo' rura' pente' cha'puj tlhIlHalDaq boluplu'.
>> =A0bIjvam ngajmoHlaHbe' vay'. motlh SuHeghpa' pa' SuratlhlI'.

Qov:
> I knew this meant "natural lives" because that's the phrase in English, b=
ut
> when I read the Klingon I get the idea that the judge is about to stipula=
te
> some condition under which they don't have to stay there. =A0I think skip=
 the
> {motlh}, unless there's some clearer way to do it.

Well, we know from HQ 7.4 that {yIn} can take an object:
http://klingonska.org/canon/1998-12-holqed-07-4.txt

So perhaps {Hegh} does too, and {Hegh motlh boHeghpa' pa' SuratlhlI'}
would work.  Or recast as {rInpa' yInraj motlh...}.

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De'vID

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