tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Oct 04 04:58:05 1994
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Fwd:re: Re: KLB(?): Order of Nouns
Comments by: James [email protected]@PWC.HDQ
Originally To: ISMTP@[email protected][[email protected]]
Original Date: Monday, October 3, 1994 at 8:20:49 am EDT
Originally From: James [email protected]@PWC.HDQ
Comments:
I send this message to the list yesterday and it never came back so I'm sending
it again to be sure it gets through.
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"William H. Martin" <[email protected]> Wrote:
| gives us with {jolpa'} and say {qunjuH}. By the way, {juH}
| doesn't really mean "house". It means "home", but in this case,
| I think "home" may work even better than "house", since we mean
| that this is the place that history lives. (At least that's
| what the people at the museums want you to think.) If you
| really want "house", you might go for {qach} instead.
Yes, you're right. 'home' was what I meant to say. 'qunqach' would read 'Building/structure of History', which to me would come across as an architectural or engineering comment as in 'It is an historical structure'.
| It may be because I am an English speaker, but my sense is that
| the boundary between complex nouns and noun-noun constructions
| for Klingon is similar to the boundary between new nouns and
| nouns described by adjectives in English. In this case, I'd say
| {tlhIngan qunjuH}. "A Klingon's home-of-history". The Klingon
| in this case is of course, the same generic Klingon who speaks
| a Klingon's language.
Great, now that I understand the noun-noun and noun noun construction more this sounds better to me too.