tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Apr 20 09:47:08 1997
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RE: Misc Questions
|Miikka-Markus Alhonen wrote:
|> How would you say International (Inter-Terran) or Local?
|
|These are things which you're just going to have to include in context. You
|know, among sentences like {naDev betleHmey DIngev} "We sell {betleH}s here."
|There IS the word {nov} . . .
... which you could contrast with {Sung}. Glen Proechel translates his
"Interstellar Language School" as {Hovmey joj Hol DuSaQ} -- not that we
have a way to say "nation/country" or "state/province". There are words,
however, for "government" {qum} and "empire" {wo'}.
|> How can I say like this: beautiful, more beautiful, the most beautiful...
|
|You're really pulling these things out of context! Don't try to translate
|bits and pieces, translate whole concepts.
| [...]
|Beautiful is {'IH}. To say "more beautiful," you must say what is more
|beautiful, and what is more beautiful than. Use law'/puS. For example:
| [...]
|"The most beautiful" is the same thing, with {Hoch} "everything" substituted
|in for the lesser of the two:
|
|SuStel
Depending on the context, {'IHqu'} or {'IHchu'} may work. It depends on
what you're really trying to say.
-- Voragh