On 3/5/2019 10:11 AM, Daniel Dadap wrote:
On Mar 5, 2019, at 09:03, Daniel Dadap<daniel@dadap.net> wrote:
I still think the question is a valid one. Maybe it should be rephrased to: “What does {chevchuq tlhInganpu' romuluSnganpu' je} mean?” I don’t have a good intuition to what it might.
We have *chev* in a canonical sentence: *'uSDaj chop, chev!* /Chew his arm off! /(clipped). The second sentence is presumabbly short for either *'oH yIchev*/separate it!/ or *bIH tIchev*/separate them!,/ in which case the subject of *chev* is not the thing separated but the cause of the separation; the object gets separated. *chevchuq tlhInganpu' romuluSnganpu'* apparently means /The Klingons and the Romulans separate each other./ That is, the Klingons and the Romulans both work to make the Klingons and the Romulans move away from each other. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name