[tlhIngan Hol] Cataloging idioms

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Fri May 5 09:21:01 PDT 2017


Found a few more:

*'IwwIj jeD law' 'IwlIj jeD puS*/I am much stronger than you/ (PK)
*jISum* /I am in touch with my inner self///(a philosophical statement) 
(/HolQeD/ 7:4)
*Soj* /matter, concern, affair /(/HolQeD/ 12:3, but maybe earlier?)


On 5/5/2017 12:13 PM, SuStel wrote:
> Excellent! Thanks. These things are really hard to track down if you 
> haven't been keeping up with them.
>
> On 5/5/2017 11:55 AM, Felix Malmenbeck wrote:
>> narghpu' 'eb
>> = "it's too late"
>>
>> DoS chIl.
>> = "digress"
>>
>> SuD veqlargh mInDu'.
>> = "Someone's jealous."
>>
>> SenwI' rIlwI' je
>> = "everybody, everything"
>>
>> vaDjaj yaDDu'lIj!
>> ~ good fortune wishes
>>
>> The article that introduces finger words is kind of a goldmine.
>>
>> Not sure if «jIr!» ("Whoop-dee-doo!") would qualify as an idiom.
>>
>>
>>
>> fre 5 maj 2017 kl. 17:47 skrev SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name 
>> <mailto:sustel at trimboli.name>>:
>>
>>     I'm updating my personal dictionary and touching up the section for
>>     idioms, which I never gave the attention it needed. I'm wondering if
>>     I've got them all.
>>
>>     There are all the idioms in KGT, then there are the following from
>>     newsgroup posts/HolQeD articles:
>>
>>     'arlogh Qoylu'pu'
>>     pumDI'
>>     tIngvo' 'evDaq chanDaq
>>
>>     Are there any other known idioms I missed?
>>

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SuStel
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