tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 20 08:53:27 1995
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Re: <noun> is <noun> from "bogh SuvwI'"
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: <noun> is <noun> from "bogh SuvwI'"
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 95 11:53:24 EST
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "ADM::RSORENSEN"@tiny.computing.csbsju.edu" at Feb 20, 95 11:04 am
According to ADM::RSORENSEN"@tiny.computing.csbsju.edu:
>
> >
> > 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".
Close, but you forgot {-'e'} on the last noun. See TKD 6.3 over
to page 68.
> ..'ej vaj tlhetlh
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> Roger Sorensen "...and so it goes."
charghwI'
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