tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 23 02:02:13 1994
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Re: KLBC
- From: "Matthew Whiteacre" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 94 11:59:48 CST
On Wed, 23 Feb 94 08:34:32 EST, Will Martin wrote:
> So how do we add "beginning"? Hmm. I personally feel uncomfortable
>trying to use the verb stem {tagh} as an adjective. I also feel like
>saying "the students who begin Klingon language" is less true to
>my meaning than "the beginners who learn Klingon language", so at this
>point, I recast this part of my sentence. We get the "who" from the
>suffix {-bogh} and use a "relative clause" (TKD 6.2.3) to get
>{tlhIngan Hol ghojbogh taghwI'pu'}.
>
Could you use the adjectival verb {chu'} (be new)?
This would result in a final version of:
tlhIngan Hol ghojwI' chu' QaHmeH vay' vIghItlh vIneH
I would parser this as:
(((((tlhIngan Hol) (ghojwI' (chu'))) (vIQaHmeH)) (vay' (vIghItlh))) (vIneH))
(((((Klingon Lang.) (student (be new))) (for the purpose of helping)) ...
(something (I write it))) (I want it))
Applying the advective (and working with only the clause for now):
(((((Klingon Lang.) (new student)) (for the purpose of helping)) ...
Combining the Noun-Noun construct:
(((((new student of the Klingon Lang.) (for the purpose of helping))...
Setting up the purpose clause:
(((for the purpose of helping the new student of the Kl. Lang.) ...
Call this [PC] and continue with the rest of the sentence:
(([PC] (something (I write it))) (I want it))
Combining the main verb and the object:
([PC] (I write something)) (I want it))
Rearanging to get the "want" to standard english position:
((I want it) ((I write something) [PC]))
This yeilds:
(I want (I write something for the purpose of helping the new student...))
or dropping all the paranthesis:
I want to write something to help the new student of the klingon language.
>charghwI'
That is how I would parse from Klingon to English. I hope it helps.
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