tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 06 00:26:34 2010
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Re: Age
- From: R Fenwick <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Age
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 17:24:40 +1000
- Importance: Normal
ghItlhpu' Voragh, ja':
>vaghnetlh ben bIH DISmey'e'
>The caves are fifty thousand years old
Actually, this isn't right, as Okrand describes in a message to the MSN newsgroup:
"The word {ben} can be used to mean "years old," but in Klingon, one doesn't say "I am X years old." The
phrase {loSmaH ben jIH} (loSmaH "40", ben "years ago", jIH "I"), if anything, would mean "40-year-old me"
or the like. It would parallel {cha' vatlh ben HIq} "Two Century Old Wine" (cha' "two", vatlh "hundred", ben
"years ago", HIq "wine, liquor")... "I am 40 years old" would be expressed as: {loSmaH ben jIboghpu'}"
(Okrand to msn, Dec 12 1996)
With that in mind, I'd phrase it as {vaghnetlh ben chenpu' DISmey} "the caves were formed fifty thousand
years ago".
Savan,
QeS 'utlh
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