tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jun 28 09:19:38 1997
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Re: KLBC: Can I say this?
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Can I say this?
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 97 16:19:03 UT
[email protected] on behalf of Nicholas Gurley wrote:
> Hmm. I was looking at the pong {call}, I think, way of saying the name, so
> I wonder, can you just say:
>
> *Nicholas* vIpong'egh. (Nicholas I call myself)
Since whenever you use {-'egh} you must also use a verb prefix which indicates
no object, you cannot have an object on this verb. Instead, you must use a
different construction to show this. We've seen how to do it in a SkyBox
card.
jIHvaD *Nicholas* vIpong
I call myself Nicholas.
Literally, it is "I name Nicholas, and I apply that naming to me." (See TKD
3.3.5 on how to use {-vaD}.)
Just remember that in Klingon you cannot combine the reflexive and an object
together.
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