tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 15 17:12:39 1998
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Re: My first try at tlhIngan Hol KLBC
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: My first try at tlhIngan Hol KLBC
- Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:10:02 -0700
At 14:49 98-04-15 -0700, charghwI' wrote:
}According to Alan Anderson:
}>
}> ghon van HI'rIp jang Qov:
}> >}*Holland*vo' jIH.
}> >
}> >maj.
}> >[...]
}> >'ach *America*vo' ghaH *Bill*'e'.
}> >
}> >Recognize that construction? :) It's that same pronoun as to be.
}> >Literally: "But as for Bill, he's from America"
}>
}> I must protest this usage of pronoun-as-be.
}
}I agree. For this, I'd offer:
}
}'ach *America*ngan ghaH *Bill*'e'.
Sulugh. I wince at {XDaq jIH}, too, so I winced, then said, "nah, it's a
prepositional suffix just like {-Daq} and let it slide. Should have thought
harder. tulughmoHmo' QaQ ghu'.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian