tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 19 00:57:11 1995
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Re: easy sentences
- From: Marc Ruehlaender <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: easy sentences
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 95 9:59:08 MEZ
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "William H. Martin" at Jan 18, 95 2:44 pm
- Mailer: Elm [revision: 66.25]
> > > > > > 8. It was a pity the weather was so bad.
> > > > > > QaHHa'laHpu' SuSmey. vaj moghnISlu'.
>
> Note that your English contains no sense of perfective. It DOES
> contain past tense, but Klingon doesn't deal with tense except
> by context or time stamp, which you could think of as a
> temporal locative. Anyway, {-choH} indicates this change of
> state that you sound like you are seeking. Perhaps you like:
>
> matlhetlhqa'laHpa' nuQaHHa'choH SuS.
>
> Before we could progress again, the wind changed to hinder us.
>
I'm not sure that I made myself clear (sigh-)
I try to explain, what I wanted the suffixes to express:
-Ha' a change from QaHlaH to QaHlaHbe'
-laH well, "help" -> "helpful"
-pu' the change indicated by -Ha'
is completed. (I know the difference
between tense and aspect - though
I'm not to say I mastered it :-)
(I don't know what you mean by "time stamp")
> In HolQeD vol 2, number 4, Okrand stated that {muD} could be
> used to describe the weather.
>
like in DaHjaj QaQ muD?
> > However, I think I see now the major points, I
> > wanted to have made clear to me.
>
> Does this offer more?
I sure have a plethora of more questions to come.
> I've been rather assertive and
> confrontational in expressing my opinions lately. I hope this
> does not complicate the acceptance of valid points I intend to
> offer.
>
Not at all! I'm very glad to be able to talk things
over with you.
mu'tlhegh ngeDlaw' DIja'chuqmo' matay'taHvIS jIQuchqu'neS.
(Doesn't make much sense I suspect)
Marc 'Doychlangan'
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