tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Aug 24 19:33:32 1996
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Re: jIlIjlaw'...
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: jIlIjlaw'...
- Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 22:33:52 -0400 ()
- Priority: NORMAL
On Thu, 15 Aug 1996 19:59:19 -0700 HoD trI'Qal
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hm... it's a really bad translation of "The information which ~mark has
> about me is very dangerous". I probably should have used a
> double-relative-clause, instead of a "noun-noun" construct with the pronoun
> <jIH>:
>
> Qobqu'chu' muqelbogh Sov'e' ghajbogh ~matk
>
> Hm... looks pretty ugly, still... what do you think?
I would have gone for a simpler:
Qobqu'chu' muqelbogh ~mark SovHey.
I added the {-Hey} both because you can't be SURE what ~mark
knows, and because it marks {Sov} as a noun, just in case it
would confuse people who might see it as a second verb and
wonder what is going on.
> --tQ
>
>
> ---
> HoD trI'Qal
charghwI'