tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 03 04:34:31 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] when I was X (years old), from the age of X to Y
- From: lojmIt tI'wI' nuv 'utlh <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] when I was X (years old), from the age of X to Y
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 07:34:15 -0500
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On Mar 3, 2014, at 5:48 AM, De'vID <[email protected]> wrote:
> De'vID:
>>> We know that {loSmaH ben jIboghpu'} is how a Klingon would say
>>> "I am 40 (years old)". How would you say "when I was X, I did such
>>> and such"?
>
> QeS 'utlh:
>> Presumably anyone saying that would know how old they are now, and so
>> {loSben Qang vImoj} "I became chancellor four years ago" seems to me the
>> easiest way of putting it.
>
> But the listener/reader doesn't necessarily know the speaker/author's
> age, especially if the time at which those words were spoken/written
> is in the past.
>
> I am translating part of an autobiography. There is a sequence of
> "When I was X, I did such and such" in succession. The reader is not
> expected to know the author's age when he wrote those words.
>
> De'vID:
>>> {wa'maH cha' ben jIboghpu'DI' moQbara' vIghojchoH} seems to me
>>
>>> like it's saying the speaker is 12, and started learning Mok'bara at
>>> birth.
>
> QeS 'utlh:
>> True. How about:
>>
>> qaSpu'DI' DISwIj wa'maH cha'DIch moQbara' vIghojchoH.
>
> This is exactly the solution I arrived at myself. I had wanted to
> preserve the usage of {bogh} somehow as it felt more Klingon, but
> eventually resorted to year labeling as you suggest.
>
> De'vID:
>>> Also, how would you say "from the age of 20 to the age of 25, I studied
>>> the bat'leth under Kang"?
>
> QeS 'utlh:
>> qaSpu'DI' DISwIj cha'maHDIch, betleH tonSaw' mughojmoHpu' qeng qaStaHvIS
>> vagh DIS.
>
> But is it {vagh DIS} or {jav DIS}? 20 to 25 inclusive is 6 years. The
> author might be talking anywhere from 5 to just under 6 years.
> Rephrasing it in this way forces a particular interpretation.
>
> Actually, the original text is quite un-Klingon in its imprecision.
> The author actually says, "From the age of X to Y or Y+1, these events
> happened".
>
> --
> De'vID
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