tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 30 12:46:26 2006
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Re: KLBC (adverbials)
- From: Shane MiQogh <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC (adverbials)
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:46:11 -0800 (PST)
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So is there a way to make the adverbial stick to 1 verb, but not the other?
Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]> wrote: --- Shane MiQogh wrote:
> So basically, to get a sentance that refers to
> liking a color a little i would leave out a noun and
> it'd be correct? (I understand now that i can refer
> to a pink object by using a noun, but is the first
> sentance correct for liking red only a little? lol)
No, the other way around. There are no Klingon
words that refer to colors in the abstract. {Doq} is
a verb that means "to be red(, etc.)" You can't use
a verb as the object of another verb ({parHa'} in
this case). So you can't just refer to "red" in
Klingon, you have to pair it with a noun, as in
{Doch Doq} "a red thing". (When I wrote the
translation "I like red a little", I was only
addressing the use of {loQ}. I didn't mean to
imply that the sentence was otherwise correct, and
went on to address the issue of {Doqqu'} being a
verb.)
The Klingon mind doesn't seem given to abstractions.
They don't seem to understand the idea of "color"
without considering the item that displays that
color.
-- ter'eS BG
> Terrence Donnelly
> wrote: --- Shane MiQogh wrote:
>
> > what if i said "loQ Doqqu' vIparHa'"? What would
> the
> > adverb modify, Doq, par, or both? And does one
> > pronounce both q in Doqqu'?
> >
>
> Adverbs modify the entire phrase, so your sentence
> reads "I like red a little" and not *"I like a
> slightly red (thing)." BTW, {Doqqu'} is a verb,
> and you actually need a noun to be paired with it
> and be the object of {vIparHa'}, for example:
> {loQ Dochmey Doqqu' vIparHa'}. And, yes, you
> do pronounce both q's. I do it by making a
> little pause between the two. I think you
> can also lengthen a single q.
>
> -- ter'eS BG
>
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