tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 15 07:57:47 1998
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Re: SuvwI'bom
- From: Marc Ruehlaender <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: SuvwI'bom
- Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 09:57:36 CDT
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 14 Jun 1998 21:24:46 -0700
ja' ghunchu'wI':
> I actually have more of a problem with {Olaf 'oH pongwIj'e'} than I do
> with the "simple form" {Olaf jIH}. The way I think of the "to be" use
> of pronouns, I like {pongwIj 'oH Olaf'e'} a lot better. But I have no
> conclusive arguments that the other way around is wrong, of course.
>
I know, I know... another uninteresting grammar splitting...
but that's the way I learn languages...
how do you determine what is the subject in Klingon?
e.g. if I want to translate "I am the captain.", I'd say
{HoD jIH} if it answers "Who are you?" and
{jIH ghaH HoD'e'} if it answers "Who is the captain?"
("As for the captain, that would be me...")
i.e., I choose the known thing as the subject and the unknown
as the object. (Of course that's why {SoH 'Iv} confuses me :-)
Marc Ruehlaender
aka HomDoq
[email protected]