[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ghay

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Fri Apr 18 09:21:41 PDT 2014


On 4/18/2014 11:46 AM, ghunchu'wI' wrote:
> On Apr 18, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> jorwI'mey ghaymo' qarDaSnganpu', Hegh SuvwI'pu'lI' law' 'ej rIQ
>> SuvwI'pu'lI' law' Suffer major losses after Cardassian bombing
>> campaign. MKE
>>
>> BTW notice the repetition of the subject phrase {SuvwI'pu' law'}
>> "many warriors" in the main clause(s).
>
> It seems to me less like repeating a subject and more like describing
> a second subject with the same words. If it were the same {SuvwI'pu'
> law'} in both sentences, I would expect a different conjunction.

I expect this is correct. "SOME of your warriors die and SOME of them 
are injured." The ones that are injured are not the ones that died.

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