tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 06 12:33:56 1994
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tlhIngan Hol ghojwI' Hem
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- Subject: tlhIngan Hol ghojwI' Hem
- Date: Thu, 07 Apr 94 00:29:50 EDT
>> tlhIngan Hol vIghojtaHmo', vIHem.
>> "Because I am continuing to learn Klingon, I am proud"
>> --HoD trI'Qal
> Good. I'd like to add another possible version of this:
> tlhIngan Hol vIghojtaH 'e' vIHem
> "I am proud that I am learning Klingon language."
This strikes me as either an odd reading of TKD's translation of {Hem} or
else a structure that is too English-oriented. {Hem} looks intransitive to
me. {'e'} is not really the same as the English "that" in this case. Actually
English has no real equivalent to {'e'}. "That" in this case is a conjunction
nominalizing the entire clause following it. Plus, like I said, I really
don't think {Hem} could take objects. I have a hard time accepting your
version, unless you perhaps thought {Hem} might really translate as "be proud
*of*". Otherwise, I'd say you have to use trI'Qal's version (altho the
{vIHem} there should be {jIHem}).
>charghwI'
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