tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 11 00:30:02 1998
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Re: KLBC: Re: qechmey vIHutlh
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Re: qechmey vIHutlh
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 00:28:50 -0800
At 20:59 98-02-08 -0800, charghwI' wrote:
}vaghleS jIHvaD tetlhvamDaq rInpu' jar wejDIch.
}
}You meant to say that the third month will be finished. {rIn}
}doesn't seem like a transitive verb to me. [be accomplished,
}finished].
jIbuDtaHvIS mu'tlheghvetlh vIlaDchu'be'. qatlho'.
}> {yaDDu'wIj Dachop 'e' vItIv} "I enjoy it when you bite my toes."
}chonajqa'moH...
jIghojmoHtaHvIS jItIvmoH je 'e' vInID. ;)
}I'm not trying to do your work for you here. I'm trying to offer
}castings of your meaning that you likely would not have thought
}of so you may see them and begin to think more like this as you
}do more of your own translations. Qov gives you good nudges with
}the focus being on making the smallest modifications to what you
}have already written in order to make it correct. I seek to
}augment that by offering you an unrelated approach that you
}might find refreshing. The combination may bring you a better
}net understanding of this language than either approach alone.
Dachovchu' 'ej batlh bIghaq. My aim is not to turn a beginner's submission
into the best possible Klingon to express the beginner's ideas, but to turn
the beginner's errors into specific things learned about the grammar.
}> Try:
}>
}> {DaH QIn law' vIlaDnIS} - "Now I have to read a lot of messages."
}> or
}> {DaH nI' QIn tetlh} = "Now the list of messages is long."
}
}or, to contain both of these meanings:
}
}DaH nI' QIn telth vIlaDnISbogh.
}
}"Now the message list that I must read is long."
I wrote that first, actually but then realized it was not the message list
that had to be read, but the messages.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian