<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I love the way you guys can find stuff in canon. SuDojchu’.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">An alternative translation for {potlh De’} might be, “Information of an important thing”. I remember being surprised that he didn’t use the adjectival version of the word and say {De’ potlh} “important information”.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Meanwhile, I can also see the potential is to feel that the information itself was not important. It’s the thing the information is about that is important, like if you knew the code name of a secret operation, the name is not really important, but the operation is, and the name is information about the operation.</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 14, 2019, at 4:09 AM, De'vID <<a href="mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com" class="">de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 15:59, mayqel qunenoS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" class="">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Ca'NoN master:<br class="">
> We’ve seen similar words to {chabal}<br class="">
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You mean, that we have seen them been used on their own, without being<br class="">
part of a noun-noun construction ?<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What does it matter if they're used on their own or in a noun-noun construction?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">{HurDaq tu'HomI'raHvetlh yIlan!} "Get that piece of junk out of here!" (Klingon CD game)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">{yo'SeH yaHnIvvo' potlh De' wIHevtaH.} "We are receiving a priority message from Operations Command." (HolQeD 8.4, line cut from Star Trek V)</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">{tu'HomI'raH} was used alone. {potlh} was used in the noun-noun construction {potlh De'} "priority message", but its meaning of "something important" is clear from its usage.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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