tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 18 22:48:50 1994
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Requesting help!
- From: [email protected] (Bill Willmerdinger)
- Subject: Requesting help!
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 23:53:00 -0500
I'd like to ask the help of the Grammarians in determining if I have this
phrased correctly. The original context is not important, but I'm very
curious to know if I did this correctly.
qaStaHvIS wa' nem *Riverside*Daq to'baj 'uSHom lughoDlu'bogh vISopDI'
HItlhejneS *Rosemary*
I intended to say something like this:
Rosemary, do me the honor of joining me for stuffed to'baj legs at Riverside
next year.
My biggest worry is how to express "next year". We're given in canon the old
"4000 throats" bit, in TKD. The "in one night" is expressed qaStaHvIS wa' ram
- "while one night occurs", more or less. I could find no other way to
express "next year" other than qaStaHvIS wa' nem - "while one year from now
happens". I considered using -DI' as in qaSDI' wa' nem, but that didn't seem
to be correct, especially since I already have vISopDI' in there!
The "join" part was easy, given the examples of HolQeD V2#4 about using
tlhej.
Was the rest of the sentence unambiguous enough to translate easily?
Satlho'!
Qob
... May your consorts consistently feel the need to wash their hair.