tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 18 02:38:09 1998
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Re: KLBC: taghqa' DuSaQ
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: taghqa' DuSaQ
- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 02:37:27 -0800
Sorry, I got distracted. I do that. My plants died when I started learning
Klingon, because I forgot to water them. I'll try to catch up, now.
At 11:22 98-01-06 -0800, HovqIj wrote:
}Hi. I wrote this text today. Unfortunately I won't be able to study much
}Klingon
}the next few weeks, I have to do a lot of other work. :(
}
}qaStaHvIS cha' Hogh juHDaq jIHpu'.
}I've been at home for two weeks.
Not sure that perfective is correct or incorrect here. English used
perfective for this meaning. French uses present. Who knows which Klingon
chooses.
}wa'leS DuSaQDaq jIjaHnISqa'.
"go to school" is an idiom in English, encompassing not just the act of
travelling to an educational education, but also the whole idea of attending
classes on a regular basis. This has been discussed to death in an earlier
thread, however.
}jIHvaD qaStaH DIS DuSaQ wa'maH wa'DIch.
}It's my 11th year at school. (lit.: The 11th school-year is happening for me.)
Not a bad recast. We're in very idiomatic territory here, and we simply
don't know the Klingon idioms. But your order is a little strange. You
have "year's eleventh school." To say "school year" or "year of school"
you need {DuSaQ DIS}.
}wejleS *France* Hol nejwI' vIjeSnISmo' Dochmey law' vIghojnIS.
}Because I have to take part in a French test (can I use a direct object on
}{jeS}?)in 3 days I have to learn a lot of things.
The answer is "probably you can't use a direct object with {jeS}, but lots
of people do it anyway because we need such a word so badly." {nejwI'} is
an interesting choice for "test." I think I would prefer {qaD} or {tobwI'},
but I don't really like either. Perhaps {laHwIj Dajlu'}, and avoid having
to have a noun at all.
}qaStaHvIS loS Hogh nejwI'vam rurbogh nejwI'mey law' tu'lu'.
}There will be many tests that resemble this test for four weeks. (I wanted
to }try
}a {-bogh}-sentence... ).
Or perhaps {lutu'lu'}, just because I'm pedantic. We've never actually seen
{lutu'lu'} used here, where the rules say it should be.
}DuSaQ vImuSHa'qu' neH. ;)
}I just looooove school. ;)
I think {wejpuH} would convey your meaning better.
}Qaghmey law'qu' DaSamqa'be' 'e' vItul, Qov.
law'be'.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian