tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 31 17:37:15 1998
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Re: KLBC: RB Illusions
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: RB Illusions
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 17:36:13 -0800
At 12:10 98-01-30 -0800, edy wrote:
}>More to work on (some are ambiguous: any Klingon sentence that could
}>reasonably be translated to give the English is fine):
}
}wa' peng lo' 'ej vagh negh HoHchu'pu' /
Works.
}wa' peng vagh negh HoHchu'pu'
You've forgotten OVS? Fix this.
}>He finished five soldiers with one torpedo.
Justify using {-pu'} here.
}Qe' ngo'Daq vagh nay'mey Sopchu'
}>He finished five courses in the old restaurant.
maj.
}HoqvaD vagh qoq chu' chenmoHta'
}>He finished five new robots for the expedition.
mujbe'.
Why did you use the perfective? Justify it.
}vagh raSmey ngo'qu' rInmoH 'ej quS chuS tI'
}>He finished five antique tables and fixed the noisy chair.
This one was cruel. "finish" in English in reference to furniture can mean
"make smooth and apply varnish to." In what sense did you understand the
man "finishing the tables." The sentence is good, but I don't 100%
understand what it would be to {raS rInmoH}.
}wa'maH Sochvatlhrep vum 'e' mev 'ej 'uQ Soprep
}>He finished at five and was ready for dinner.
majQa'. Well recast.
}>This module turns red when the ammunition is ready to explode.
}jorbeHDI' nIchvam DoqchoH bobcho'vam
majQa'. Only nit is that you have said "this ammunition" not "the
ammunition." You caught {-beH} and {DoqchoH}.
} jorbeHDI' nIchvam Doq moj bobcho'vam
Definitely NOT. This says it "becomes a Doq" There is no noun {Doq}. You
got it right the first time.
}wa'Hu' taS Hurgh pojta' tej
}>Yesterday the scientist had finished analyzing the dark solution.
majQa'
}ngong wIrInmoHchugh vaj SIbI' yagh yIchev
}>If we finish the experiment, immediately isolate the organism.
I might have used {wIta'chugh} and {yIlonmoH} but your sentence is fine.
}vulqangan vuQ tlhIl Qobvam
}>This dangerous mineral will fascinate the Vulcan.
Only type-5 suffixes go to the adjective. Type 4's stay on the noun.
{tlhIlvam Qob}.
}verengan ghIj tlhIlmey ramvam
}>These trivial minerals will frighten the Ferengi.
Same: {tlhIlmeyvam ram}.
maj. bIghojlI'.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian