tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Mar 15 00:34:00 2003
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Re: sentences 3/13/03 (was KLBC)
chepqu' ne' wrote:
>> >ghol'e' lo'laH vIHoy'.
>> >My compliments to a worthy opponent.
Quvar wrote:
>>The emphasizing {-'e'} is not necessary, but not wrong either.
>>The question for me is, if a "worthy opponent", is the same as {lo'laH},
>>but I think that's okay.
I do like this translation. My Merriam-Webster dictionary lists "honorable"
as a definition of "worthy", so the verb {quv} could work here too.
If chepqu' does choose to use {-'e'} to emphasize {ghol}, watch out:
there's a somewhat obscure grammar rule for verbs acting as adjectives.
Take a look at TKD section 4.4, page 50. The type-5 noun suffix moves from
the noun, to the end of an adjectival verb, so you'd have:
{ghol lo'laH'e' vIHoy'}
- taD