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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: pagh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Sun Jun 16 05:47:40 2013
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:47:06 +0200
From: Lieven <levinius@gmx.de>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
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ja' QeS:
>> {pagh} "nothing, none" (n), {pagh} "no one" (n) and {pagh} "zero"
>> (num) are almost certainly the same lexeme, so can probably be
ja' Voragh:
> I take your point, but one shouldn't confuse them when translating from Klingon into another language... or relying on an online translation program! E.g.
As usual, this is again an english language problem. I guess that
Klingons do not think about the different meanings. Many languages have
words with different meanings.
pa'vo' pagh leghlu'chugh, vaj pagh vIlegh: pagh ghot, pagh nuv.
jISImtaHvIS mI' <pagh> vIlo'chugh, vaj pagh Doch 'oS je. pImbe'.
pa'vo' jupwI' pagh leghlu' 'e' vIHarbe'. vengvam Dabbe' 'e' vISovmo'.
vengvamDaq ghIQchugh ghaH vaj SovlaHbe' mebpa'mey vu'wI'. :-)
Quvar.
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