tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 22 17:41:54 1995
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Re: About {pong}
- From: "Silauren, Half-Elven" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: About {pong}
- Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 20:41:54 -0500 (EST)
sorry about the last message.... something screwed up the connection and
sent the message for me. here it is again.... hopefully as i intended
originally to send....
On Sun, 22 Jan 1995, HoD trI'Qal wrote:
> > On Sat, 21 Jan 1995, HoD trI'Qal wrote:
> > > recipient of the sentence (Just as if I said "I give the god a bone"...
> > hrm.... somehow i doubt that was intentional, but damned i wish it was!!!
> I assure you, it was not. Hagh qoHpu' neH HeghtaHvIS SuvwI'pu'.
'ach HeghtaHvIS pagh SuvwI'... qoH jIHbe'. 'ach Doch tlhaQ vIHagh.
> > looks good to me... personally i find it more a matter of style than
> > anything else. whether i say <naQ'avwI' mupong tlhInganpu'> or
> > <jIHvaD *Silauren* lupong *elf*pu'> seems to me to amount to the same
> > thing: a construction that should make sense to nearly any <tlhIngan
> > jatlhwI'>, telling them that certain people know me by certain names.
> > *shrug*
> The only problem with charghwI's recasting is when the both the subject
> and the object need to be explicity stated, as well as the name. For
> example, how would you say, "The warrior named his son qeylIS"? Using
> charghwI's method, you can't. This way, you can:
>
> puqloDDajvaD qeylIS pongta' SuvwI'
yeah, i agree with you here... so if you're using this particular kind of
sentence, use the "-vaD + pong" construction instead of the "no-vaD"
construction. *shrug* the "no-vaD" construction can work for some
translations and not for others, depending on what is being said. so
just use common sense to determine which you would want to use in a
particular situation.
> See what I mean?
qayaj.
> --HoD trI'Qal
--naQ'avwI'
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