[Tlhingan-hol] Maltz about "The Klingon Art of War"

[Lieven]

ja' matlh:
>> Maltz said ruv’etlh for sword of justice made the most sense to him,
>> but he thought vo’ruv ’etlh might be an older term for the sword.

  Am 16.11.2014 14:55, schrieb Felix Malmenbeck:
> Marc recently mentioned to me that while there's a common perception
> that noun-noun constructs must be separated by spaces, he's actually not
> at all picky about that.

Maybe you have overseen one important syllable, thisi not about spacing: 
The book is using the word {vo'ruv'etlh}, which looks like a bad 
translation for "sword OF justice", mistaking the suffix {-vo'} as "of, 
from". A literal correct translation for "sword of justice" is {ruv 'etlh}.

Since the word is printed in the AOW (KAW? TKAW?), Okrand probably 
avoided to say that it's a mistake because that might not be fair for 
the author.


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