tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 04 05:35:03 1994
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mujatlhmoH nuq jay'
- From: [email protected] (Mark E. Shoulson)
- Subject: mujatlhmoH nuq jay'
- Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 17:32:58 -0400
- In-Reply-To: Nick NICHOLAS's message of Mon, 4 Apr 94 12:25:24 EST <[email protected]>
>From: [email protected] (Nick NICHOLAS)
>Date: Mon, 4 Apr 94 12:25:24 EST
>Hu'tegh! nuq ja' [email protected] jay'?
>=this sentence has a variety of possible interpretations. One of the things
>=Klingon seems to be annoyingly lacking is some way to express speaking
>="*about* a topic". I don't like using {-'e'}, as Sorensen suggested in HolQeD
>=2:3, pg.8.
>A topic marker doesn't make an "about" preposition, true. While the -moH
>solution proposed is ingenious, it isn't quite general. How would I say
>"She heard the news *about* him"?
>I often think that my two huge Klingon texts contain all solutions to problems
>of Klingon expression past and future, if only future generations would sift
>through them ;) . Seriously though, in my texts I've solved this, a la
>{lo'taHvIS/"with"}, by using buS, and increasingly, qel:
>We're talking about Klingon: tlhIngan Hol wIqeltaHvIS maja'chuq
>She heard the news about him: ghaH buSbogh De''e' Qoypu'
These are *excellent*. True, I'm less enamored of "-taHvIS" tricks when
"-meH" is around (verengan vIHoHmeH pu'HIchvIlo' is waaay better than
verengan vIHoH pu'HIch vIlo'taHvIS), but where it doesn't work... this is
very nice. "-DI'" would also be a good suffix to try.
There are lessons here... Look to the verbs and sentence structure to flesh
out your prepositions!
>--
>Nick.
~mark