tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 31 06:07:08 1995
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Re: loDHompu'
- From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: loDHompu'
- Date: Wed, 31 May 95 08:05:01 -0700
r'Hul wrote:
> jiSaghbe'. tlhIngan<cleavage>wIj vIHem.
yoDtargh wrote:
> {Hem} is probably not a transitive verb. You could say:{tlhIngan
> [cleavage]wIjmo' vIHem.}
If {Hem} isn't transitive, then why did you leave {vI-} on it, hmm? :-)
r'Hul:
> But that changes what I meant. I'm not proud because of them. I'm
> proud of them. }}:-)
Perhaps {tlhIngan [cleavage]lIjvaD bIHem}? We don't have a trivial way
to say "be proud of" something, so you can't translate it word-for-word.
-- ghunchu'wI'