tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 30 11:01:20 1995
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}} Quimby translation - Reply
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- Subject: }} Quimby translation - Reply
- Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 10:01:20 -0500
chup charghwI':
<<<<<
naDev peHa'! wa'maH cha' Heghpu'bogh ghargh'a'mey tItu'!
>>>>>
qub! charghwI' vIlughmoHlaH!
"Ha'" isn't a verb, it's an exclamation. Yes, it's glossed as "let's go, come
on", but the fact that those are verb phrases (full sentences, really) in
English doesn't affect their grammatical category in Klingon. As far as I
know, exclamations aren't members of any other class and can't take
either verbal or nominal affixes. [This generality is not affected by
words like "Do'" that have a verb or noun gloss as well as an
exclamation gloss.] charghwI's first sentence simply doesn't work.
Of course, he *did* remember that an imperative with a plural object
requires "tI-" instead of "yI-", unlike the rest of us on this topic (including
me in the post I sent a few minutes ago).
- tlhIngan veQbeq la'Hom marqem
Heghbej ghIHmoHwI'pu'!
Mark A. Mandel
Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
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