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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Question on Klingon Negation
- From: "De'vID" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Question on Klingon Negation
- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 17:58:16 +0200
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<p dir="ltr"><br>
On 24 Jun 2014 17:43, <<a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>> wrote:<br>
>> For example, would "I don't hear anything" (in response to something like "Did you hear that?") be properly translated as {pagh vIQoybe'}, {vay' vIQoybe'}, or something else like simply {vIQoybe'}?<br>
><br>
> If you want us to tell you the best answer to a question in Klingon, it really helps for you to give us the question in Klingon. There is no literal, word for word Klingon translation for "Did you hear that?" given that and the way you compromise your question when translating it would make it much easier to form the best answer in the negative.<br>
><br>
> Hmm. I've never seen this noun suffix on this particular noun, but perhaps: {vay'vetlh DaQoy'a'?}</p>
<p dir="ltr">Klingon can't express "this" or "that" without an accompanying noun ({ghu'}, {Doch}, {wanI'}, etc.). In this case, "Did you hear that?" really means "Did you hear that *sound*?" {wabvetlh DaQoy'a'?}</p>
<p dir="ltr">Klingon actually has something much more interesting than double negation, and that is that it doesn't use negation in some situations where English or another language would.</p>
<p dir="ltr">"There's nothing happening here."<br>
{naDev qaS wanI' ramqu'}</p>
<p dir="ltr">So one possible way to express "I don't hear anything" might be {wab tamqu' vIQoy}.</p>
<p dir="ltr">-- <br>
De'vID</p>
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