tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 09 09:05:55 1996
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Re: KLBC: Trouble with {-moH} again... was Re: pong duj (again)
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Trouble with {-moH} again... was Re: pong duj (again)
- Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 12:05:46 -0400 (EDT)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (message from WillMartin on Thu, 8 Aug 1996 14:20:12 -0700)
>Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 14:20:12 -0700
>From: Will Martin <[email protected]>
>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...
"Smart-alec" Darup Hoch. :)
~mark