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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] supersonic submarines?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SuStel)
Tue Aug 26 14:06:12 2014
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:05:57 -0400
From: SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <ACF6622D959A8842A81E4471BA56A7E04BD2A5CD@xm-mbx-04-prod.ad.uchicago.edu>
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On 8/26/2014 1:29 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:
> To discuss this, we have the noun {wab} "sound, noise" available but
> no simple word for a submarine. We'd need to describe it, e.g.
> *{bIQ'a' bIngDaq lengbogh (lengmeH) Duj}.
"Beneath the ocean" is an English idiom that may or may not exist in
Klingon. A submarine travels IN the ocean, not beneath it.
The trouble is, of course, that -Daq combines "in" and "on"...
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SuStel
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