tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Mar 05 11:29:39 1999
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RE: KLBC: yIHnaQ
- From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: yIHnaQ
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:32:26 -0700
jatlh 'oghwI':
> bIQDep DavutmeH tlhIch Dulo'. nIQ vISopmeH jIcheghta'
> Would you tell me what you think I written. I don't what to tell
> you what I think so you will tell me what you interpretation is.
Well, except for a typo (<Dulo'> should be <Dalo'>), you've said "You smoke
the fish. I have returned for breakfast".
> I set ghItlhwI' the challenge of the tribble-stick thing and so I
> came up with:
> lam Daq 'e' DaSIchlaHbe' Say'moHmeH ghanjaq lIt yIH
> but I wanted a noun in the last bit so I adopted her yIHnaQ (I did
> not like the sound of yIH naQ as a noun-noun, and I did not like
> yIHnaQ but then I am too fussy :)
> lam Daq 'e' DaSIchlaHbe' Say'moHmeH yIHnaQ
This is actually pretty close. The first part - <lam Daq 'e' DaSIchlaHbe'>
doesn't make much sense - it says "You cannot reach that the places are
dirty". What you want is "the dirty places which you cannot reach". The
right tool for this is <-bogh> rather than <'e'>: <Daqmey lam
DaSIchlaHbe'bogh>. The rest is fine.
> I'm sure most of this is incorrect, but then again you never know...
> I changed the format so it made sense to me.
> soH 'Iv reH *TV*
> Ah that's not correct. My brain has left the building.
> What I tried to say was, Who do you play on TV?
> It came out more of a >Who are you play TV<.
This one does need work. With the publication of KGT, and some of Marc's
comments at qep'a' loSDIch, it is clear that <reH> means "play" in the sense
of unstructured leisure activities. I suspect (and I certainly *DO NOT* know
for sure) that it is applied primarily to children. So <reH> doesn't work
for "play a part in a drama". The words that would apply here are <much> -
"present", and maybe <Da> - "behave as, act in the manner of".
"On TV" is rather difficult - we don't know what sort of thing Klingon uses
to express this concept.
> But there you have it. I'll keep trying. One day I may even
> write two sentences in a row that are both correct.
rejmorgh yIDaQo'. bIqeqtaHchugh, vaj laHlIj DaDubbej.
pagh
Beginners' Grammarian