tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 12 05:09:52 1994
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Re: ghargh ngaSghaj vIpoSlI'...
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: ghargh ngaSghaj vIpoSlI'...
- Date: Wed, 12 Oct 94 8:08:17 EDT
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Heidi Wessman" at Oct 11, 94 5:39 pm
According to Heidi Wessman:
>
>
> If one were to say....
> Que sera, sera
> in tlhIngan Hol, would it be...
>
> qaSbej nuq qaS
>
> <'ach>
>
> nuq qaS qaSbej
>
> If so, great. If not, what would the correct form be?
>
> ------------------
> chuQun
>
Well, when you consider that {nuq} is treated grammatically as
a noun and you remember that nouns which preceed verbs are
objects and not subjects, then you might want to look at these
again. You might also consider that you are trying to build a
"sentence as subject" construction here, which is illegal. You
are trying to say "what happens -- happens," where the stuff
before the hyphen is a sentence and that sentence is the
subject of the verb that follows the hyphen.
You might try a different approach:
qaS wanI'mey.
Better yet, to be more Klingon in character, you would
personalize it, like:
qaSbogh wanI'mey Hoch vIlaj.
Or more simply:
Hoch vIlajtaH.
charghwI'