tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 23 16:58:18 1996
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Re: KLBC: Back from qep'a with questions
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Back from qep'a with questions
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 19:57:39 -0400 ()
- Priority: NORMAL
On Sat, 17 Aug 1996 02:37:43 -0700 Eskil Heyn Olsen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I was trying to translate "This is the first time I see a ferengi",
> and avoiding using "poH wa'DIch" after seeing the discussion. Came up
> with {DaH verengan vIlegh 'e' qaSbe'pu'} hopefully meaning "Now I see
> a ferengi, that has not happened before" (this ofcourse refers to the
> salesman at the qep'a' with the band-aids {naghHom ram 'oH yabDaj}).
I'm surprised nobody pointed out that for this particular
sentence, Klingon has a special verb which makes it all VERY
simple:
verenganvam vIqIHpa' latlh vIqIHpu'be'. "Before I met (for the
first time) this Ferengi, I had not met (for the first time)
another one."
> How would one use say a thing is fast/slow ? The words for these
> concepts are adverbs, so I would guess that {nom puv targhwIj} would
> say "my targh flies fast" (pigs in space?), but what in a {law'/puS}
> construction ?
There are still recastings that work for this.
nom jaHlaHbej DujlIj 'ach nom jaHqu'bej DujwIj!
In fact, you can be more specific about the speed of each ship
instead of being restricted to commenting on the simple
comparison. "My sea turtle is faster than your sea turtle," and
"My triple-A fuel dragster is faster than your triple-A fuel
dragster," offers less information about the actual speed of the
compared items. The {law'/puS} comparison you seek would offer
less information than the recasting I suggest.
...
> And btw, will anyone accept {jIHaw'meH Duj'e' vIlota' nIHlu'} as
> "someone has stolen the ship in which I fled" (yes, back to the
> shipinwhichifled).
No. You have two main verbs (one of which is mispelled) and the
{-'e'} has no reason to be there. Meanwhile, I suppose it could
have been {jIHaw'meH Duj vIlo'ta'bogh nIHlu'.} Meanwhile, that
dodges "the ship in which I fled" by recasting it as "the ship
which I used."
> DaH rIn jabbI'ID
majQa'!
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