tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jul 02 07:28:31 1998
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Re: marrying
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: marrying
- Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 09:27:26 -0500
At 10:13 AM 7/1/98 -0700, muHwI' wrote:
>Am/Um 08:27 01.07.98 -0700 schrieben Sie:
>>{Saw} = "he marries", and {nay} = "she marries", both gender specific. But is
>>it possible to stretch this gender rule as far as e.g. {Sawchuqbe'wI'pu' puq
>>ghaHbe'} for "he is illegitimate"?
>
>A different problem I've been thinking about:
>the two words for "to marry" are gender specific, so how would you say
>"We are married" or "JUST MARRIED!"??
>
When I translated the marriage ritual from Worf's and Dax's wedding, I
translated
"now these two are married" as {Sawta' loD 'ej nayta' be' 'ej DaH tay'taH} (or
something like that; the actual text is at
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/2711/tlhoghty.html )
-- ter'eS