tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 08 14:17:19 1996
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Re: KLBC: Trouble with {-moH} again... was Re: pong duj (again)
- From: Will Martin <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Trouble with {-moH} again... was Re: pong duj (again)
- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 17:12:17 -0400 ()
- Priority: NORMAL
Just to throw a little more fuel on the fire...
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996 13:02:28 -0700 "Mark E. Shoulson"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> ...But remember which is
> subject and which is object, and also remember that objects in English
> aren't always objects in Klingon ("He saw me eat the pie" does NOT have
> "mulegh" anywhere, since "me" is nowhere the object of "legh" in the
> Klingon translation: chab vISop 'e' legh).
Unless you cast it as: chab vISoptaHvIS mulegh.
Or: chab vISopbogh jIH'e' mulegh.
Or: chab vISoplI'DI' mulegh.
It was the word "nowhere" that set me off...
> ~mark
charghwI'