[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: mI' nagh

[Felix Malmenbeck]

> vIghel 'e' vIqawbe' 'ach pa' jISaHtaHvIS ghellu'.  SaHlaw' je loghaD.

ngugh chaq pa' jISaH 'ach wotvam'e' jIghelbe' 'e' vIHonqu'.

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From: De'vID jonpIn [de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 20:13
To: tlhIngan-Hol at kli.org
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: mI' nagh


Philip Newton:
> Someone (De'vID jonpIn?) asked Marc Okrand about {DIng} at the qepHom
> wa'maHDIch (2011) in Saarbrücken.

vIghel 'e' vIqawbe' 'ach pa' jISaHtaHvIS ghellu'.  SaHlaw' je loghaD.

Philip Newton:
> I seem to recall that he agreed that it was intransitive (the spinning
> thing {DIng}s, and the one who spins it {DIngmoH}s it), but am not
> sure whether the answer might not have been the characteristical
> noncommittal instead.

lugh {ghur vay'}, {vay' ghurmoHlu'}, {nup vay'}, {vay' nupmoHlu'} je 'e' maqbej MO.  {jIr} rur {DIng} maq je 'ach rurchu' 'e' maqchu'be'.  Sovchu'meH matlh'e' tlhobnISlaw'.

({matlh'e' tlhobnIS} is apparently an idiom meaning "to be characteristically noncommittal". {{:-) )

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