tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Sep 15 14:23:33 1997
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Re: KLBC: vulqanganpu'
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: vulqanganpu'
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 14:23:28 -0700 (PDT)
At 01:24 PM 9/15/97 -0700, muHwI' wrote:
>*greet*DI' vulqanganpu' jatlh chaH:
How about {ghomchuqDI'}?
><poH law' yIyIn 'ej yIchep>
Your sentence is an order. The original greeting is more like a wish that
it be true, no? We have a suffix to express wishes. We also don't have any
evidence that {yIn} takes as an object the length of time that one lives. I
use:
nI'jaj yInlIj 'ej bIchupjaj
Marc Okrand has translated it differently in an article that I am sure
someone will post in follow up.
>Doch vIQIjbogh Dayaj 'e' vItul.
vIyajbej.
>chaq Qagh law' vIghItlhpu' 'ach neH DaH bIghojlaH.
{neH} doesn't make sense before the adverb there. I assume you are trying to
say something like "but that's how you learn." Perhaps: {jIghojmeH jIQaghnIS}
Qov ([email protected])
Beginners' Grammarian