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Re: prepositional phrases


>Avraham Chapman:
>>As a learning exercise, I've been translating Doctor Seuss' 'The Cat 
and
>>the Hat'. Unfortunately, he uses a lot of prepositional phrases and I
>>don't know how to do them. Specifically, I'm looking for 'in the NOUN'
>>where NOUN = any noun.
>
>Voragh:
>>Your first example - "in the NOUN where NOUN" - is a variant of the
>>infamous "ship in which I fled" problem, which has been frequently and
>>inconclusively debated in this forum. You may have to split this into 
two
>>sentences. There is no law which says that one sentence in English 
cannot
>>become two (or more) sentences in Klingon, or vice versa.
>
>Qermaq:
>>I think you misread this, Voragh. "looking for 'in the NOUN' where 
NOUN =
>>any noun." "In the ship" is <DujDaq>. "In the leg" is <'uSDaq>. 
>
>Aha, you're right.  I thought Avraham was trying something a bit more
>complicated.  If I understand him now, what he wants to say is just 
"The
>Cat in the Hat".  As it happens, this is STILL a variant of "the ship 
in
>which I fled" problem: i.e. "the cat which/who is in the hat". Luckily, 
in
>this case there is a way to avoid the problem: 
>
>  mIv tuQbogh vIghro'
>  the Cat in the Hat
>  ("the v'gro [who is] wearing a helmet")
>
>as in:
>
>  QImmey SuD targh Ha'DIbaH je SoplI' mIv tuQbogh vIghro'
>  The Cat in the Hat is eating green eggs and ham.
>  ("The v'gro wearing a helmet is eating green eggs and targ meat.")
>
>But since Avraham didn't say what he was trying to translate, this is 
only
>a guess until he provides more information.
>
>-- 
>Voragh                         
>Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 
>

In this case, I am trying to translate, 'So we sat in the house.'

When I'm done with a few pages at least, I'll post what I have for 
discussion.  By the way, though my email says 'Avraham', call me 'Avi'.

Qapla'

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