tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 01 13:25:22 1996
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Re: baS tuj pe'wI'
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>Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 02:06:35 -0700
>From: "A.Appleyard" <[email protected]>
> (1) nuv DubDaq yInSIp-meQSip baS tuj pe'wI' 'e' Sip ngaSwI'mey qenglu'bogh
>tu'lu' 'e' Qoypu''a' vay'? ben law' Manchester-Daq Platt-Fields-Daq qul
>mevwI'pu' luch 'angghachDaq wa' wa'logh vIlegh. lI'qu', DatDaq 'oH vIqenglaH!
> (2) Hereinabove {qenglu'bogh} is the first verb. Sorry about the 5-component
>noun "of"-chain, but how else to express it?
meQSIp? burn-gas? glossing over the verb-noun compound, what is it?
Methane? Hydrogen? Oh, acetylene? You're lucky context helped you; we
really have now way of knowing what Klingons would call acetylene; lots of
gasses burn (even as lots make you choke, but Nitrogen gets the name. Does
Nitrogen really make you choke? I mean, I breathe it all the time, mixed
with oxygen and stuff).
I really can't parse this sentence. I see a bunch of nouns (OK, large
N-N-N.. construction)... I see "'e'".... wait, that's a pronoun referring
to the preceding sentence. But there hasn't been a sentence yet, unless
you're using "tuj" as a verb in which case I'm really confused. And the
word after 'e' should be the verb of which 'e' is the object... but it's
SIp, which is a noun... I'm lost already. I can't make sense enough of the
rest to comment coherently, tho I note that 'angghachDaq is highly marked
(-ghach normally goes on suffixed verbs), and according to TKD, Dat never
takes the -Daq suffix.
yItaghqa'. chomISmoHchu'.
~mark
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