tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 05 15:24:44 1994
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Re: Hoch vISovnIS
- From: "...Paul" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Hoch vISovnIS
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 18:24:32 -0500
>Hoch vISovnIS 'e' wa'DIch DuSaQDaq jIghojta'
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>
> N: Hoch: everyone, all, everything.
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> V: vISovnIS: I-him/her/it/them need to know.
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> N: 'e': that.
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> N: wa'DIch: first.
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> N: DuSaQDaq: in school.
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> V: jIghojta': I did learn.
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>Does this work for y'all as a tlhIngan Hol
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> "Everything I need to know I learned in Kindergarten"?
I think it's a little odd. It could be tightened up with a -bogh construct:
DuSaQDaq Hoch vISovnISbogh vIghojta'
Oh, I just noticed your prefix on "jIghojta'" is wrong; the verb is taking
an object, 'e', so it needs to be vI- regardless.
The use of wa'DIch to me is a bit odd. It seems to me I'd be more likely
to translate it as "Everything I need to know, first I learned in school",
which doesn't really convey the point of "kindergarten", as I suspect you
want it to.
If you wanted to say "first school", you need to put wa'DIch AFTER the noun
it modifies; it would be DuSaQ wa'DIchDaq (because -Daq always goes on the
last noun in a noun-noun construction, although, hmm... that's debatable).
But the wa'DIch would definitely have to go after the DuSaW to indicate
"First school".
Pretty close for a first try!
...Paul