tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 13 13:58:22 1998
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Re: KLBC - DaH mughqa' tuv'el 'e' nIDlaw'
- From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC - DaH mughqa' tuv'el 'e' nIDlaw'
- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:57:45 -0700 (PDT)
---Burt Clawson wrote:
> ja' ghunchu'wI':
>
> > ja' tuv'el:
> > >qaStaHvIS wa'maH cha' pemmey wa'maH cha' rammey je, tlhIngan Hol
vIHaD.
> > >jIDubchoH'a'?
> >
> > HIja'. bIngotlhchoHba' je.
>
> jIngotlhchoHba'chugh qab'a'?
nubelmoH ngotlhwI'pu'.
Your sentence is hard to read, though.
The first, "If I become visibly fanatical..." is fine, but then you
say {qab'a'} with no visible antecedent, and it's slightly confusing.
In English "It is bad" with a dummy subject is usual, but in Klingon
the sentence is more ambiguous. I knew that qab'a' was not the
subject of the previous verb, because the subject was jIH, from the
prefix. So here is this word. /qab'a'/ "the great face"? "facade"?
Well that makes no sense. "Is he bad?" "Are they bad?" "Is she bad?"
"Is it bad?" Is what bad? Oh, "Is *it* bad" like English. Klingon
can do this, as we know from {qay'be'} - "no problem" but there is
more ambiguity. You could have helped with /qab'a' ghu'?/, perhaps.
==
Qov - Beginners' Grammarian
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