[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: mI' nagh
Felix Malmenbeck
felixm at kth.se
Thu Mar 22 12:27:04 PDT 2012
> 'ach wotvam'e' jIghelbe' 'e' vIHonqu'.
HIvqa' veqlargh.
{'ach wotvam'e' jIghel 'e' vIHonqu'.} vIghItlhpu' 'e' vIHech.
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From: Felix Malmenbeck
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 20:25
To: De'vID jonpIn; tlhIngan-Hol at kli.org
Subject: RE: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: mI' nagh
> 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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De'vID
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