<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="">As I see it, the soldiers’ blood is the source. The stuff raining down is just… blood. It stopped belonging to the soldiers when it left their bodies.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just as clouds are left behind when they rain water, the soldiers’ bodies were left behind when they rained blood.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s similar to the way that Klingons don’t see corpses as being meaningfully associated with the living people who once occupied them. Even the corpse of Kahless is just a corpse. </div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 14, 2021, at 8:36 AM, mayqel qunen'oS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" class="">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">loghaD:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Clouds don't just produce rain; they become the rain, or at least parts of them do.<br class="">Similarly, the blood of the soldiers is both the source and the emanation.<br class="">However, unlike the case with clouds and rain, we tend not to use different words to<br class="">distinguish between blood coursing through a person's veins and blood flying through the air,<br class="">so "the soldiers' blood" fits as both the subject or the object.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I understand this argument, and indeed it offers an explanation, if we<br class="">understand the {SIStaHvIS negh 'Iw} to actually be {(negh 'Iw)<br class="">SIStaHvIS negh 'Iw}. But is it this the case here?<br class=""><br class="">The thing which confuses me is that according to the klingonska<br class="">article, if the thing which is being rained down is anything "unusual"<br class="">then one would expect it to appear in the object position, not in the<br class="">subject.<br class=""><br class="">~ Dana'an<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">tlhIngan-Hol mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org" class="">tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org</a><br class="">http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>