tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 07 17:22:27 1998
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Re: KLBC-Qov's practice texts
>Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 16:45:41 -0800 (PST)
>From: "Robyn Stewart" <[email protected]>
>
>chas writes:
>
>}bItlhIjchughbe' Sopqa' tIv targhwIj.
>}If you do not apologize my targ will enjoy a second meal.
>
>If you had just said {bItlhIjchughbe' Sopqa' targhwIj} it would be
>grammatical, a fair recast, and funnier than the English I gave. "If
>you don't apologize, my targh will resume eating." Two verbs in a
>row like that is a no-no in Klingon. You could use SAO again, or you
>could use what I intended:
>
>{bItlhIjchughbe' nay' cha'DIch tIv targhwIj.}
>
>I was testing to see if you would correctly put the word for second
>*after* the noun.
Oops. You can't have -be' after the type-9 suffix. It's bItlhIjbe'chugh
(like in bIjeghbe'chugh vaj bIHegh.)
~mark
pe'vIl Qong nguvbe'bogh qechmey SuD.