tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 18 12:14:37 2002
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Re: Hol ghojlu''a'?
- From: Andrew Strader <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Hol ghojlu''a'?
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 17:04:56 +0000
- Organization: Decode
>> >> Hol wIlo'qu'taHvIS
>> >"While we very much use language,
>> -qu' does not mean "very much", but indicates emphasis (see TKD 4.3).
>I have no problem with people translating -qu' as "very much", MO does it
>himself. I admit it seems a bit ackward sometimes. "Really" can be used
>also; "While we really use language..." How would YOU show -qu' in english?
-qu' does not JUST mean "very much". Indeed it is ambiguous. When attempting
a translation of my text, charghwI' just happened to interpret my -qu' in
such a way that his English version sounded really bad, seemingly to
demonstrate how poor my Klingon was -- because he couldn't translate it well
into English(?) But just in case his interpretation was accidental, I gave a
reference in TKD to examples of the emphatic function of -qu'. Other examples
include PK's "naDev Dochvetlh qemqu'".
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Andrew Strader