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Re: KLBC Translation

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: KLBC Translation
• Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:21:21 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

[Apparently BG Quvar missed this, so I'll give you a hint...]

At 03:11 PM Wednesday 8/6/03, chepqu' ne' wrote:

>One of my goals was "I allow myself to have perfect health".
>The translation I come on is
>jIpIvchu' 'e' vIchaw''egh

Re-read TKD (p.35) on {-'egh}:

   This suffix is used to indicate that the action described by the verb
   affects the performer of the action, the subject. It is translated by
   English "self".  When this suffix is used, the prefix set indicating
   'no object' must also be used:
      jIqIp'egh   "I hit myself"
      bIqIp'egh   "you hit yourself"
      qIp'egh     "he/she hits himself/herself"

I.e. A verb with {-'egh} cannot take an object -- such as {'e'}.  In other 
words, the second verb in a "sentence-as-object" pattern cannot have the 
suffix {-'egh}.

You'll have to re-word this slightly.  Offhand, I can think of two simple 
fixes.  Can you?



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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