tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Aug 20 00:47:37 1994
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Re: KLBC: Re: rI' nobmey nobwI'lu!
- From: HoD trI'Qal <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Re: rI' nobmey nobwI'lu!
- Date: Sat, 20 Aug 1994 12:42:24 -0400 (EDT)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "d'Armond Speers" at Aug 14, 94 11:54:20 am
Sorry, Holtej, jupwI'. You made a few more boo-boos. {{:( (If someone
already pointed these ou;t to you, ignore this.)
Holtejvo':
> Bryanvo':
[deletia]
> > Hegh HaDIBaH, Hegh qorDu, yIhegh'egh'je
> > 'ach batlh ghogh Heghbe' pongqoq Suqluta netvad.
> >
> > "Cattle die, kinsmen die, you yourself must die;
> > but the voice of honor never dies for him who has earned a good
> > name."
[more deletia]
> Now, let's look at the next line. You have ?{batlh ghogh} for
> "Honor's voice." I think a more appropriate word choice for "honor"
> here would be {quv}, from the addendum of TKD. {batlh} means "with
> honor," and is used as an adverbial. Your sentence means "But, does
> not die the voice." See, you have {ghogh} in the object position.
This was an error I once made as well. <batlh> also happens to be a
*noun*, so the construct here is perfectly correct, in that sense.
> I know that {net} is listed in TKD as a noun, but I object to your
> using it in a compound, *{netvam}. It's like, "this that." Also,
<net> is a noun? Really? This is news to me. I always thought it was
just a pronoun/adverbial!
> > HoSlIj Daghur jaj
>
> "The day, you increase your strength"?
>
> {jaj} is just floating out there, no verb to call its own. Why?
> Because {Daghur} has the prefix {Da-}, which includes the subject
> "you." The subject position is already taken, so {jaj} has no home.
It looks like there was an accidental, extra space in there to me:
HoSlIj Daghurjaj
"May you increase your strength."
--tQ
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