kgt:

> The slang expression is used in such constructions 

> as bIvonlu'pu' ("You have failed completely"; literally, "You 

> have been trapped").

Here is the problem; why {bIvonlu'pu'} and not {Davonlu'pu'} ?

An error. But by all means, someone ask Okrand if it was indeed an error.

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