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Re: <Bloodwine> tlhIngan

QeS 'utlh ([email protected]) 

ghItlhpu' Shane MiQogh, ja':
>wejpuH... (probably the most unused word out there, i had to give it 
>credit.)

If you think that's bad, just wait and see how often you get to use the verb 
suffixes {-beH} and {-neS}. {{:)

>Doqqu'lu'chugh, 'e'be'lu' 'Iw tlhIngan. (If it is red, it is not klingon 
>blood.)

Because you're talking about something specific - bloodwine, in this case - 
then the indefinite subject suffix {-lu'} is inappropriate here. As well, 
{'e'} can't function as a copular pronoun like {'oH}, {ghaH} and so on, and 
therefore probably can't take verb suffixes; {'oH} should be used here. {'Iw 
tlhIngan} should also be the other way around ({tlhIngan 'Iw}), because 
noun-noun constructions work in the same way as they do in English, the 
first noun describing the second:

tlhIngan 'Iw - Klingon blood
'Iw HIq - blood wine

So, incorporating all this: {Doqqu'chugh tlhIngan 'Iw 'oHbe'} "if it is red, 
it is not Klingon blood".

>That brings up another idea of mine... is 'e'lu' even correct?

No. {'e'} isn't a verb, but a pronoun, and it can't be the pronoun in a 
pronoun-as-verb construction, either.

QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute


not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
     - Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh

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