tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 02 04:43:10 1994
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Re: Requesting help!
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Requesting help!
- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 94 16:38:22 EDT
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Bill Willmerdinger" at Sep 1, 94 9:07 pm
According to Bill Willmerdinger:
...
> in> [There is the sound of a chair sliding back as charghwI' stands
> in> to face you, fists on his hips.]
>
> in> Hut DIS jIyInDI' qoHna' HeghHom Heghpu' vavwI'. batlhwIj
> in> vIchenmoHnIS jIH'e'. quv'e' Suqpu'bogh vavlI' Dalo'taH 'e' chaq
> in> DawIv'e'? chaq SoHvaD batlhlIj DaSuqlaHbe''a' SoH'e'? SoHvaD
> in> quvlIj SuqnIS'a' latlh?
>
> vav SoS ghap vIghajbe'. *qutvaj* qorDu' vImuvpa' qorDu' vIghajbe'. batlhwIj
> vItu'ta'. jISuDpu'. pIj jaghpu'wI' vIchargh. rut jIHeDnISpu'.
> reHjIghohpu'.
majQa'! Until the last sentence, of course. Two typos. Left out
a space and typed a lowercase "h". Still, quite well said.
> (I'm not sure what your first sentence means. "When I live nine years", but
> is the qoHna' the subject of that phrase? "When I, the definite fool, live
> nine years..."? Then, "my father has died (small death? death bone?)." What
> am I missing?)
I should have said, {Hut DIS vIyInpu'DI' qoHna' HeghHom Heghpu'
vavwI'}, "When I had lived nine years, my father had died a
true fool's insignificant death." {qoHna'} was part of a
noun-noun possessive construction with the object of {HoHpu'}.
I'm not sure my original was WRONG, but the {-pu'} added to
{vIyInDI'} does make the timing a little clearer.
> Qob
>
> ... Your mother would rather feed _you_ to the _gagh!_
She often tried, bless her. DuHoHbe' ghu' vaj HoSlIj ghur.
charghwI'