tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Mar 19 07:03:13 1994
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KBLC - RE: Help, please
- From: trI'Qal <[email protected]>
- Subject: KBLC - RE: Help, please
- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 16:17:27 -0400 (EDT)
*Beginner*
>I was originally thinking of something along these lines:
>
>porgh righ SiHtaH maSbej (some sort of conjunction) yab qal bechtaH maSbejbe'.
>
>(It is certainly preferable to continually endure a lame body; it certainly
>not preferable to continually suffer a corrupt mind.)
>
>Or something like that. But I still don't find either of these to be really
>acceptable. BTW, please excuse grammar mistakes; I'm still learning.
So I bring this to the KBLC, and correct your errors. for you. {{:) first,
<SIHtaH> and <bechtaH> still need verb prefixes, even if in English they were
in the "to <verb>" form. I would recommend simply putting a -lu' on each, and
then using the sentence-as-object construction with <maS>:
porgh rIgh SIHlu'taH net maSbej 'ej yab qal bechlu'taH net maSbejbe'
"One certainly prefers that someone/thing continually endures a lame body; one
certainly doesn't prefer that someone/thing continually suffers a sorrupt
mind."
Please note that <maS> doesn't mean "to be preferable"; It means "to prefer".
Look at your English for what you submitted here again... If you don't see
what I mean, say so, and I will explain.
>Anybody got any better ideas?
I sent all of my other ideas in a seperate post.
--HoD trI'Qal