tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jul 17 12:21:18 1998
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Re: KLBC - puqbe'oywI'
KLBC - puqbe'oywI'
Perfective! to /-pu/ or not to /-pu/
> spelling: /bogh/. You happen to have lucked out here with the
> perfective: Klingons state when they were being born by saying when
> they had been born. So if your ten years old you say wa'maH ben
> jIboghpu', because your tenth birthday has occurred, so ten years ago
> you had already been born. It's the completion of the birth process
> that's the point, one presumes.
wa'Hu' Do Qe'Daq jIjaH 'ej ghaytan wa'leS jIjaHqa'. "I went to the fast
food restaurant yesterday, and I'll probably go again tomorrow."
jaghma' rap DaHoHta'DI', HIja'. "When you have killed our common enemy,
tell me."
wa'les jIboghpu'be' 'e' DaSov. "You know I wasn't born yesterday."
> Try writing this as, "I am impatient because she grows up slowly." or
> "I am impatient while I wait for her to grow up."
jIHem QIt nenchoHlI'mo' ghaH.
nenchoHlI'meH ghaH'e' jIloStaHvIS jIHem.
> > jIHemqu' ben yab ghaHDI'
> >
> > I will be so proud when she is
> > old enough and can receive her jInaq."
>
> Hmm, this is hard to parse.
>
> jIHemqu' - I will be so proud
> ben yab ghaHDI' - when she is a years ago mind
>
> Better tell me where you were going with this one. I see a possible
> typo for /yap/ and what looks like an attempt to extract the concept
> of 'be old' out of 'years old', and what looks like the Klingon
> re-creation of an English idiom "be years old." But you wouldn't do
> these things, would you?
Yup, I meant /yap/. Now that I am looking at it more closely, I can see
why it was so confusing. I was trying for something like, "When she is of
sufficient age." Maybe something with /qan/? How do you get across the
idea of "be old enough?" Can a verb modify another verb directly? (i.e.
qan yap)
> qatlho' - I thank you. I appreciate you.
I saw the noun <gratitude>, but didn't see the verb right below it.
> ==
> Qov - Beginners' Grammarian
- tuv'el, pach puqloD