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RE: Dilbert Comic in Klingon for 2006/10/16

DloraH ([email protected])

• From: "DloraH" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: Dilbert Comic in Klingon for 2006/10/16
• Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:07:45 -0500
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> > Boss: "Really? Threats make you work all night?"
> >  pIn: {'oH teH'a'? ram Hoch bIvumtaH 'e' DabuQlu'mo''a'?} (2)
> >
> 
> Instead of {teH}, try the verb {vIt} 'to tell the
> truth'.  The rest needs re-working: if you are using
> {-mo'}, you wouldn't use the {'e'}, but I think I'd
> go with a different word order:

If you do choose to still use teH, what is the 'oH as the Object?
Object Verb Subject.


> {bIvIt'a'? DabuQlu'chugh vaj ram naQ bIvumtaH'a'?}

I wouldn't use naQ with ram.
To me, specifying naQ implies that through some miracle of God there could
possibly be a night that is not whole.

chab naQ Hoch Sop.  He ate all of the whole pie.
naQbe'bogh chab Hoch Sop.  He ate all of the partial pie. (A pie that
someone had already taken a chunk out of.)
chab naQ 'ay' Sop.  He ate a piece of the whole pie.
naQbe'bogh chab 'ay' Sop.  He ate a piece of the partial pie.


DloraH

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