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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] New Canon - King John Shakespeare
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI')
Wed Mar 21 11:14:10 2012
From: ghunchu'wI' <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
In-Reply-To: <C305E6BD33E2654DAE1F8F403247B6A6032091298E82@EVS02.ad.uchicago.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:09:37 -0500
To: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
Cc: "tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org"
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On Mar 21, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
> We have two new examples from "TalkNow! Klingon":
>
> yopwaH bID shorts (pants)
> paH bID skirt
>
> Note that {bID} follows the nouns: e.g. a half-gown", which is a type of dress. (BTW {paH} is translated "dress" elsewhere in TNK). Presumably {bID paH} would be "half of a dress" (e.g. a normal sized dress ripped in two, say in a struggle or fit of anger).
I think you have it backwards. A skirt IS half of a dress: the bottom half. I believe {bID paH} would imply something else entirely.
-- ghunchu'wI'
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