tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 14 18:13:37 1998
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Re: KLBC: Re: TLHINGAN-HOL digest 695
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Re: TLHINGAN-HOL digest 695
- Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:11:03 -0700
At 13:25 98-04-14 -0700, you wrote:
}<Re: KLBC: tlhIHvaD jIlIH'egh>'e' majatlhtaHvIS ja'pu' Qov:
}
}>In the sentence above you need the suffix. {pongwIj'e'}
}>Qov 'oH pongwIj'e'. chu'wI'pu' vIboQ.
}
}qeyyoH 'oH pongwIj'e'. boQwI'pu' vInuQ.
jIH chonuQbe'bej. muHaghmoH mu'tlheghlIj.
}>batlh Hol jatlh je be'vam! nughmaj muvta'mo' ghaH jIbel.
}jIghojtaHvIS nughvam vIjeSqu' 'e' vIHech.
majQa'. qep'a' vaghDIchDaq bISaH'a'? :)
I should point out that we don't know that {jeS} can take an object: it
isn't "participate in." But we need the damned word so badly that almost
everyone cheats and uses it as you just did.
}>loQ ponglIj vIqawlaw'. maqIH'a'?
}jIH 'Iv? pegh.
Hov ghajbe'bogh ram rur pegh ghajbe'bogh jaj
}>You'd want {gho naQmoHwI'} to express "thing that makes a circle whole," but
}>as I'm sure you realize, no one would every figure out we were talking about
}>a tire pump without a lot more explanation.
}>
}>It's a hard one. I'd probably use something like {*bicycle* SIp raDwI'} or
}>maybe {SIp ghoDwI'}. jIngor 'e' vISov.
}
}DaHjaj <Dochvetlh> 'e' vImaS.
bItlhaQ. lI'bej mu'vetlh!
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian