tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Oct 23 10:54:01 1998
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RE: KLBC Tribbleball
- From: TPO <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC Tribbleball
- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 13:46:10 -0400
>> yIHghanjaq le' lo' maH.
>> We use special Tribbleclubs.
>
>If you are in Marketing, and you have a new product you want to call the
>TribbleClub(TM), this is fine. Otherwise, I think just two nouns right next
>to each other is better.
>
>I understood the smushed toghether noun, but I don't think it made your
>sentence any clearer, so there's no reason not to just leave it as two
>nouns.
I like the yIHghanjaq.
With two words I read it as the tribble's club.
we use special clubs that belong to a tribble.
or we use the tribble's special clubs.
This talk about compound nouns... sure it doesn't happen every day, but it
can happen. A couple of you will probably jump on me for saying this. You
say we don't know what's proper for klingon. Well heck, "TribbleClub"
isn't proper english either; but if you saw one in the store you wouldn't
write to the company and tell them to correct their grammar.
Yes, this would also work with two words. Two nouns doesn't have to mean
one posesses the other. With the conversation continuing there would be
enough context to clearify that it is a club for hitting tribbles and not a
club that belongs to a tribble.
DloraH