tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 19 08:24:47 2006
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Re: Dilbert Comic in Klingon for 2006/10/16
pm5:
> >> Boss: "Really? Threats make you work all night?"
> >> pIn: {'oH teH'a'? ram Hoch bIvumtaH 'e' DabuQlu'mo''a'?}
lay'tel SIvten:
> > Aside from changing the verb to {vIt}, the sentence with {teH} should have
> > its subject after the verb: {teH'a' 'oH?}, and in this case the subject
> > should probably omitted: {teH'a'?}.
Especially since {'oH} refers to a specific noun and not the previous
statement as a whole. For that of course we use {'e'} and {net}. However
since we can't say *{teH'a' 'e'?} - Okrand tells us that these two pronouns
"are always treated as the object of the verb" (TKD 65f.) - {teH'a'?} it
has to be. If you feel uncomfortable not explicitly stating a subject in
these type of conversational remarks, we have an example from ST5:
KLAA: qIpmeH Qatlh'a'?
"[Is it] Difficult to hit?"
VIXIS: Qatlhqu'.
"[It is] Most difficult."
ghunchu'wI':
>>I think {qar'a'?} works well to express "Really?"
Even better, as I think I suggested myself yesterday.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons