tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Apr 18 22:39:19 2002
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Re: to' nech, 061-070
ja' SuStel:
>From: "Sean M. Burke" <[email protected]>
>>[...]
>> K: nuq bIHpu' QaghmeylIj'e'?
>> Gloss: What were your mistakes?
>
>Your mistakes haven't completed having been mistakes. The aspect suffix
>isn't right here.
Though it might be right somewhere else:
chay' bIQaghpu'?
I've found that Klingon tends to seem more "natural" when sentences focus
on action rather than objects, often making {chay'} a much better word than
{nuq} for many questions.
>> [...]
>> K: potlh'e' yIghoSlI'!
>> Gloss: Approach the crucial thing.
>> Eno/Schmidt: Move towards the unimportant
>
>(How'd you go from "unimportant" to "crucial"?)
This is the same original as #20, but the 'translation' is exactly the
opposite. I'm curious -- is the numbering scheme something that we can
look up on the web somewhere, or is it arbitrary and specific to this
project?
-- ghunchu'wI'