[Tlhingan-hol] wojmoHwI' yupma'

Gaerfindel gaerfindel at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 10 09:24:33 PST 2012


On 12/10/2012 12:01 PM, Alan Anderson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:51 AM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Gaerfindel <gaerfindel at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> chorgh ram maw' tIv law' wa' jaj tIv puS.
>> "Eight crazy nights are more {tIv} than one day."  I don't quite get
>> this because {tIv} "enjoy" is not a "quality" verb.  Presumably you
>> intend something meaning "be enjoyable".  Maybe {belmoH}?  I'm not
>> sure that works in a {law'}/{puS} construction though.
> I'm guessing something else is wrong as well. I don't know why {maw'}
> "be crazy, insane" would be there -- is it a typo (or dictionary
> lookup error) for {may'} "battle"? The intended meaning completely
> escapes me.
>
There's no mistake.  It's a reference to an Adam Sandler song.

~quljIb



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