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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] "So what's Klingon for 'Now get your kit off?'"

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ruben Molina)
Tue May 28 15:58:25 2013

In-Reply-To: <51A506D5.904@trimboli.name>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 14:58:07 -0500
From: Ruben Molina <rmolina@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:34 PM, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> wrote:
> On 5/28/2013 2:44 PM, Ruben Molina wrote:
>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:19 PM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> <yItuQHa'choH!>
>>>
>> I can't parse it correctly
>> "You change to unwear" ?
>
>
> Try not to be so strict in your parsing. {-choH} means there is a change of
> state in something, not necessarily that you're changing something. It may
> mean that you're starting or stopping something.
>

Thanks. I'm still getting familiar with <-choH>

> tuQ = wear
> tuQHa' = undress (undo-wear)
> tuQHa'choH = undress, resulting in a change of state (from not undressing to
> undressing)

Yeah. That's the point. I was thinking on a change fom "being dressed"
to "be undressed" and the change was from "not undressing" to
"undressing".

Thanks

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