tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 26 12:36:36 2004
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Kahless the Unforgettable's sword
- From: "De'vID jonwI'" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Kahless the Unforgettable's sword
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:35:53 -0400
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De'vID:
>>As a related question, how would one say "Kahless the
>>Unforgettable's sword" (I mean besides <betleH> or <batlh
>>'etlh>)? <qeylIS'e' lIjlaHbe'bogh vay' yan> can also be
>>interpreted as "Kahless whom someone's sword cannot forget" --
>>which might in some bizarre way be a valid Klingon
>>interpretation. :)
>>
>>Does this bother anyone else, or am I mulling over a non-problem?
...Paul:
>Recast it. Instead of /lIjlaHbe'bogh vay'/, move to /qawlu'taHbogh/,
>focus on remembering rather than forgetting.
>
>Or maybe instead of using the noun-noun construction, use a /-bogh/
>construction, to say something like "the sword which was wielded by
>Kahless whom one cannot forget."
Since <qeylIS'e' lIjlaHbe'bogh vay'> is a kind of set title, I
wouldn't change it. But if I use <-bogh> then I end up with a
nested <-bogh>: <yan'e' lo'pu'bogh qeylIS'e' lIjlaHbe'bogh vay'>,
with multiple head nouns (the head noun of one relative clause
is the non-head noun of another).
I suppose the solution is always to re-cast: <yan lo'pu'bogh
qeylIS; qeylIS'e' lIjlaHbe' vay'>, "the Sword of Kahless, Kahless
the Unforgettable".
--
De'vID
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