tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Sep 08 11:34:24 1994
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Void where Prohibited
- From: [email protected] (Bill Willmerdinger)
- Subject: Void where Prohibited
- Date: Thu, 08 Sep 1994 22:16:26 -0500
I haven't seen any mail off the List in about a week, so I hope this goes
through. Amy West, if you see this, drop me a note in TREK or KLINGON,
please!
A friend asked me to translate the name of his point into Hol for him. His
point is called "Void Where Prohibited", a nice joke in English. But, do I
have a headache now!
First, I figured I had better "expand" those three words into a complete
sentence. After much thought (and a few false starts in Hol) I think "It is
void where someone has prohibited it" is the best way to say it.
First obstacle: no word for "void". Okay, I decided to use "be illegal".
First verb is {Hat}. "Prohibit" is no problem: {bot}, expanded to
{botlu'pu'}
What do I do for "where"? I thought {nuqDaq}, but even using the example from
Krankor's HolQeD article about "How can I own it?" gave me no help.
The section of TKD dealing with relative clauses says {-bogh} can mean "who,
which, where, and most commonly, that". Okay, so I can use {-bogh}.
Hatbogh botlu'pu': Someone has probibited it where it is illegal.
Does this look like the correct way to go with this? It *seems* to say what I
want, but that might be wishful thinking....
Qob
... Attention! K'elvis has left the arena! Disperse or die!