[Tlhingan-hol] qep'a' Proverbs

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Qov:
> I was talking to Marc about a t-shirt Ethan (Sepram puqloD) was wearing,
> giving the dates of Pluto's existence as a planet. I started to read it in
> Klingon and realised that while I could give the dates of an institution by
> saying tera' DIS 1930 cherlu', "It was founded in 1930"  I couldn't say
> tera' DIS 1930 tu'lu' "It was discovered in 1930" because the usage tu'lu'
> for "there is" blocks it. I'd have to say tera' DIS 1930 tu' <pong>. (But I
> didn't know who discovered Pluto).

{tera' DIS 1930 tu' vay'}?

But is {tu'} even the right verb for "discover" in the sense of
bringing to knowledge a thing which was previously unknown? Pluto
obviously existed before, during, and after 1930. {Pluto tu'lu', tera'
DIS 1930 'e' luSovchoH tera'nganpu'}

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