tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 01 17:09:43 2007
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Re: lutlh Hol ngu'meH mIw
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: lutlh Hol ngu'meH mIw
- Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 20:08:21 EST
In a message dated 3/1/2007 4:17:43 PM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
> >DIvI' Hol lujatlhlaHbogh tlhInganpu''e' law' law' tlhIngan Hol
> >jatlhlaHbogh tera'nganpu''e' law' puS.
>
> "Federation Standard-speaking Klingons are more (numerous) than
> Klingon-speaking Terrans."
>
> or more colloquially:
>
> "There are more Federation Standard-speaking Klingons than Klingon-speaking
> Terrans."
>
> Why have you tagged both {tera'nganpu'} and {tlhInganpu'} with
> {-'e'}? That defeats the whole purpose of a topic/focus marker. If both
> are topics, neither is the topic.
In both cases it marks the head noun of the {-bogh} phrase, a secondary use
of {-'e'} related to its primary uses as topic/focus marker.
(You've also forgotten to repeat {lu-}
> on the second {jatlhlaHbogh}; both subjects are plural.)
>
That's what I thought, too, at first, until I realized that this way implies
the plurality of Klingon languages, including dialects. We still know very
little about the linguistic status of the entire Klingon empire.
lay'tel SIvten