tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 12 09:54:16 1995
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Re: Attn: Klingons in Europe
- From: hfp95118 <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Attn: Klingons in Europe
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 12:31:41 +0000 (GMT)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Mark E. Shoulson" at Dec 11, 95 01:27:09 pm
Next time I'm tired and am returning from a break from Klingon, I will
not post.... :/
> >*Ireland*DaQ vISuch vIneHbejtaH!
>
> -Daq, not -DaQ. DaQ means "ponytail".
I don't know what happened to me yesterday (I'm not even going to reply
to your assessment of my "you've made your bed, now lie in it"
translation, not because I'm crushed ;) , but because it was so bad I
need to go over it in detail)... I think I must have been so deliriously
happy to have found my TKD again that my eagerness went to my head and I
couldn't stop myself from using capital Qs everywhere I turned. *sigh*.
> And if you have "-Daq", then use
> jISuch, not vISuch. You can "visit Ireland" (in which case Ireland is the
> object of the verb) or "visit [intransitively] *in* Ireland" (in which case
> the verb has no object).
This is actually something that occurred to me when I wrote this. How do
we know which verbs in Klingon are transitive and which are intransitive?
While writing, I found myself wishing that Okrand had included
information of this type in TKD. While I was just being dense with "to
visit" (it's obviously transitive, as I said, I wasn't with it
yesterday), some others aren't so clear-cut. I dimly remember seeing
threads about this before, sorry if this is running over the same ground
again.
> >qaqIHlaHchugh vaj jIQuchQu'!
>
> -qu', not -Qu'. Try to keep them straight.
Maybe it was something in my breakfast cereal :/
Darn, there goes my exuberance ;)
vanya.
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