[tlhIngan Hol] Five Little Bunnies by Dan Yaccarino (Children's Book)

De'vID de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Sat Jul 9 03:25:20 PDT 2016


On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, 17:25 mayqel qunenoS, <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:

> > may'meyDajvo' Haw'be' tlhIngan.
> > A Klingon does not run away from his battles. TKW
>
> If I don't say this I will explode..
>
> Although a "battle" takes place at a physical location, the "battle
> event" isn't the location itself. This example contradicts the rule
> "{-Daq} and {-vo'} are to be used only for physical locations".
>

They are *typically* used for physical locations. A {may'} is still a
concrete thing that you can be at or go away from. The abstract concept of
a battle is a separate word, {vIq}, in Klingon, and you can't be at or run
away from a {vIq}.

-- 
De'vID

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