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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] "I have kept my word of honor"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI' 'utlh)
Wed Jul 11 23:47:06 2012
In-Reply-To: <4346EF39-3774-44BB-8C09-A8513E1A2F22@flyingstart.ca>
From: "ghunchu'wI' 'utlh" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:46:24 -0400
To: Klingon language email discussion forum <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca> wrote:
>
>> So we've seen that {pab} can take various objects: {lurDech} "tradition", {ghob} "ethics, virtue", {'Ip} "oath", and {nab} "plan". It can also be used without an expressed object, as in the idiom/phrase {lay' 'ej batlh pab} "keep one's word of honor".
>
> Unless the object is batlh. Makes sense as batlh is analogous to ghob.
The {paq'batlh} line that sparked this thread contains the phrase
{batlh jIpabta'}.
-- ghunchu'wI'
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