tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 21 17:04:18 1997
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RE: KLBC: Highlander quotes
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: Highlander quotes
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 97 23:58:13 UT
[email protected] on behalf of %27elren Sogh wrote:
> Over the weekend I was reading some rules for playing Highlander
> type immortals in a roleplaying game,
For GURPS? I've read a number of variations of Highlander campaigns.
> maSaHpu' net Sovpu'be', 'ach DaH Sov
> No one has known we where among you, until now...
> (lit. One has not known we were present, but now they know...)
The number one rule: don't put aspect suffixes on the second verb of a
sentence-as-object construction! You've got {-pu'} on both {SaH} and {Sov}.
Also: the correct suffix would be {-taH}, not {-pu'}. Remember, aspect is not
tense. Using {-pu'} indicates that the action is completed. Using {-taH}
does NOT mean that it isn't in the past.
maSaHtaH net Sovbe' 'ach DaH SovchoH.
Actually, I think the indefinite subject is not as good as this:
maSaHtaH 'e' Sov pagh, 'ach DaH choHchoH ghu'.
No one knew we were present, but now the situation begins to change.
> jubwI' yInHoS DaHottaH
> The sensation your feeling, is the Quickening!
> (lit. You are feeling the immortal's life energy!
> Quickening is defined as the life energy of imortals)
I don't think {Hot} is "sense," it's "touch." You cannot touch the
Quickening. We don't have a catch-all word for "experience."
SoHDaq jubwI' yInHoS Datu'.
You find the immortal life energy in yourself.
> rInmeH, wa' yInlaH neH
> In the end, there can be only one!
> (lit. in order to finish, only one can live!)
{rInmeH} is "in order to be finished," but it's okay. This line kinda loses
it's power when stretched out like this. {neH} will have to follow {wa'}
because we're talking about "only one," not "merely live." Watch your order,
too.
rInDI', yIn wa' neH
Or even just
wa' neH!
> In the last one, i wasn't sure whether to have rInmeH at the
> beginning, or the end of the sentence.
Well, I didn't like the {-meH} anyway, but anytime you use a {-meH} clause to
modify a sentence, it must come at the beginning.
--
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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