tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 20 07:43:38 1995
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Re: <noun> is <noun> from "bogh SuvwI'"
- From: "ADM::RSORENSEN"@tiny.computing.csbsju.edu
- Subject: Re: <noun> is <noun> from "bogh SuvwI'"
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 9:42:01 -0600 (CST)
>
> How in Klingon do I say "<noun> is <noun>"? e.g. "Maltz is a Klingon"?
> {matlh tlhIngan} = "the Klingon belonging to Maltz";
> {tlhIngan matlh} = "the [one called] Maltz who belongs to a/the Klingon".
> Neither of these are right: what <do> I say?
>
If "I am a Klingon" translates as "tlhIngan jIH" (TKD 6.3), then
"tlhIngan ghaH matlh" seems to be the form needed here: literally
"Maltz/he is a Klingon"
Is this a case where we have to unlearn "good" English? I remember being
told that this (subject-pronoun-verb) construction is "bad grammar".
...'ej vaj tlhetlh
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