tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 21 17:08:37 1996
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Re: 'e' and all that rot...
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: 'e' and all that rot...
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 20:08:29 -0400 ()
- Priority: NORMAL
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 01:05:21 -0700 "A.Appleyard" <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected]
wrote:-
> > ... A tagline thought: Someone's bumper sticker at the qep'a' read, "Human
> > by birth, Klingon by choice". I got as far as "Human jIboghta'" then ran
> > into trouble with the second bit ...
>
> Looks like yet another case where we are stuck for lack of an adverbial
> suffix. A Welsh construction that I came across gave me an idea to translate
> "X-ingly" as {XDaq} or {XghachDaq}, e.g. "he wrote this book drunkenly" as
> *{chech(ghach)Daq paqvam ghItlhpu'}, literally "at drunkenness": sounds like a
> reasonable metaphor.
No it doesn't.
charghwI'