tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 13 19:31:00 2001
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RE: KLIC: <telescope>wIj chu'
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> From: tuvel [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 10:19 PM
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> Subject: KLIC: <telescope>wIj chu'
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>
> KLIC: <telescope>wIj chu'
>
> <telescope> chu' vIghaj. "I have a new telescope."
>
> tagha' vIghajmo' jISey. "I am excited to finally have one."
maj. "Good."
> wej vI' cha' vagh 'uj jan 'oH 'ej cha'maH jav 'uj 'aD. "It's a 114mm
> instrument with a length of 910mm."
bIjuvHa'law'. wej vI' cha' Soch wej 'uj 'aD *114mm*. "I think you measured
wrong. 114mm is roughly 3.273 'uj."
> chaq loQ mach, 'ach machqu'be. "Perhaps it's a little small, but not
> too small."
>
> Dajbogh chal Dochmey law' vIleghlaH. "I can see many interesting things
> in the sky."
>
> ram Hoch, Daqmey tamchuqtaHvIS <Jupiter> maSmey, vIbejtaH. "I am
> watching the moons of Jupiter as they exchange positions each night.
<Hoch ram> DaHechlaw'. bong bIjatlh "Everything is unimportant."
"You apparently intended to say, 'Each night'. Accidentally, you said, <Hoch
ram>.
Lacking Klingon grammatical terms for "direct object", I can't say the
following in Klingon. You have made {Daqmey} the direct object of
{tamchuqtaHvIS}, but no verb with {-chuq} can have a direct object, since
the subject is the direct object in a reflexive verb. Move {Daqmey} to
follow {maSmey} and this should work. mu' Quv yIqel. Consider the word
"coordinates".
> <Saturn> bavbogh DI gho vIleghta'. "I have seen the rings of Saturn."
maj.
> tera' maSDaq HuDmey vItu'ta'. "I have found mountains on Earth's moon."
>
> <Venus> muD 'engmey vIleghta'. "I've seen the clouds of Venus'
> atmosphere."
>
> yuQ'a' <Uranus> vInejlI'. "I'm looking for the giant planet Uranus."
bIDo'jaj. "Good luck."
> tugh ghopDap vItu' 'e' vInID. "Soon I will try to observe a minor
> planet."
yuQHom tIn law' ghopDap tIn puS. "A minor planet is bigger than an
asteroid."
> ghaytan jIQap. "I will probably succeed."
>
> - tuv'el
SarrIS