tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 08 03:42:35 1997
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Re: KLBC: Requiem review
- From: "Eduardo Fonseca" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Requiem review
- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 07:29:10 -0300
> } Requiem
> }jaw, HeSmey yIlIj
> }(Lord, forgive our sins)
>
> 1. Our sins is {HeSmeymaj}.
> 2. plural sins requires plural object imperative prefix. {tIlIj}. I
> clearly didn't hit you hard enough with the painstick for this last time.
Qu'vatlh! I forgot the changes.
yoj jaj tu'lu'. jajvetlh chavmeymaj noHmeH nughoS joH
(There will be a judment's day. In that day the lord will come to us in order to
judge our achievments)
I'll change here to "judgment's day"
> }ba'choHpu'DI' noHwI' paq'e' laDlu'chu'. bIjDaj popDaj joq Hev Hoch
> }(When the judge has been seated, they will read the book. Everyone will
> receive his reward or punishment)
>
> Any reason you emphasized {paq'e'} here? I hope you weren't just copying
> the {-'e'} down from the sentence above.
No. If {-'e'} is not necessary it can be dropped.
> }nuq jIjatlh. jIH QaH 'Iv jItoDlaHbe'chugh
> }(What I will say? Who will help me if I cannot save myself)
>
> Don't forget verb prefixes. "Who will help me?" The subject is third
> person and the object is me. {jIH muQaH 'Iv} "who will help ME?"
Okay. I'm not sure how to use the verb prefix of the subject of the
sentence.
> }quv qa'pu' toDbogh joH'a', HItoD
> }(Great Lord, who saves the honored spirits, save me)
>
> Remeber that a stative verbs modifying a nouns follows the noun. {qa'pu' quv}
> Perhaps {toDtaHbogh} I think that he saves the honoured spirits not just
> once, but in the past and future as well, qar'a'?
HIja'
Dochvam yIqaw' joHwI' quv: wo' vItoytaHvIS jIHegh. qa'wI' yIje'
(Rebember this, my honored Lord: I'll die serving the empire. Enrich my spirit)
> Again, {joHwI' quv}. Check the prefix on {toy'}.
vItoytaHvIS.
> I see how you understood {puQ} - "be fed up" as "enrich," but "be fed up"
> happens to be an Engish idiom meaning "have reached the limit of tolerance."
> The verb you ant is {je'} as in {qa' wIje'meH maSuv}.
Sutil difference for non english native! :-)
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