tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Feb 23 18:36:57 1996
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Re: KLBC: poHmey
According to Alan Anderson:
>
> ter'eS asks:
> >How does one tell time in Klingon?
>
> Time stamps answer the question "when", right?
> {ghorgh mapaw? wa'leS mapaw.}
> {ghorgh megh wISop? wa'maH cha'vatlh rep megh wISop.}
> Perhaps a "correct" way to ask what time it is involves {ghorgh}.
>
> Now all we need to do is figure out how to say "when is now?"
> {ghorgh DaH qaS?} Bleah. The language isn't cooperating well.
Well, if {DaH} were a noun, that would be {ghorgh qaS DaH}, but
since it is an adverb, it makes no sense whatsoever. "When now
it happens?" "When does it now happen?" I would not expect to
say this in a crowded Klingon bar without sustaining wounds.
> Maybe {ghorgh} all by itself would work. But that's getting
> out of the realm of grammar and into the realm of idiom.
tlhaq vIlegh vIneH.
chay' jang tlhaqlIj?
nuq 'oH tlhaqlIj Dotlh'e'? nuq 'oH tlhaqlIj De''e'?
jIHvaD tlhaqlIj De' yInob.
tlhaqlIj De' HInob.
And as for the way the last item makes at least two of you
cringe, there really is canon to support this kind of use of
verb prefix and Krankor has written at least one article on it
and has written here many times on it. It is not that different
from the English "Give me that apple," instead of "Give that
apple to me," which are two different VALID ways of expressing
the same thought.
> -- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj
charghwI'
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