tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 23 01:17:40 1998
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Re: What is your name
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: What is your name
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 01:16:50 -0800
At 11:56 98-01-22 -0800, you wrote:
} I would like to comment this line.
}
}In English you say: What is your name?
}In Spanish or Portuguese you say: "How do you call yourself"?
}In Klingon: nuq 'oH ponglIj'e'
}
}It's the idiomatic expressions
}
}I saw in somewhere a expression HIchlIj yI'ngu' for "choose your weapons"
or something like that (I'm not sure). I was wondering
}if it could it apply to What is your name?
}ponglIj yI'ngu' - Identify your name
Identify your name? This doesn't sound quite right. Identify means
recognize, or select. Maybe {ponglIj yIjatlh}
}yI'ngu'egh - Identify yourself (to a single person)
In the first place it's {yIngu''egh}, no prefix ends in a stop, but the
suffix begins in one. {yIngu''egh} does mean "identify yourself." I don't
know if the answer would be your name your rank or your profession.
}pe'ngu'chuq - Identify yourselves (to a group of persons)
Stop this putting a stop after prefixes, right NOW, edy.
My judgement here is badly clouded by the fact that I origianally read this
as {penga''egh}.
If it works for you -- it works.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian