tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Aug 04 10:27:11 2008
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RE: "Update"
- From: Fiat Knox <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: "Update"
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 18:25:08 +0100 (BST)
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I can work with that either way. :)
--- Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not bad. That's a good approach to translating into
> Klingon: If the verb you're looking for doesn't appear
> in the glossaries, look for the opposite idea and use
> {-Ha'}.
> BTW, depending on the context I think you can drop
> {-choH} (change in state/direction), which seems to focus
> attention on the actual moment of change or transition
> rather than the result. Okrand explains in TKD p.37:
> "Suffixes of this type indicate that the action described
> by the verb involves a change of some kind from the state
> of affairs that existed before the action took place.
> maDo'choH
> we are becoming lucky.
> we are undergoing a turn of luck.
> ghoSchoH
> he is beginning to go (somewhere).
> The implication of the second example is that he or she
> was going either nowhere or somewhere else sometime
> before the phrase was uttered. Note that the translation
> of this suffix may be English 'become' or 'begin to'."
> Examples from canon can be provided on request.
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
Peace,
Alex.
"Oh, I love it when they /ask/ me to corrupt them ..." - Me, talking to Nai, Mar 01 2008
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