tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 17 18:07:20 1995

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KLBC: lutwIj wa'DIch

1|    puqloD ghajpu' loD
2|    yoHchoH puqloD 'e' ghojmoHta' loD
3|    Suv puqloD 'e' jhohmoHta' loD je
4|    puqloDvaD SuvtaHvIS Qapla' potlh law' Hoch potlh puS ja'pu' loD
5|    DuSaQ tayDaq ghol qipmeH nuH Hat lo'pu' puqloD
6|    naDHa'pu' ghaH
7|    potlhbej Qapla' 'ach batlh potlh law' Hoch potlh puS jatlh loD
lughpu'chugh

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Here are some thoughts I had about my story:

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In line 2 I wanted to express "The man taught his son to be brave."  I used:

     yoHchoH puqloD 'e' ghojmoHta' loD
     "The son becomes brave, the man taught that."

I'm not 100% satisfied with this.  I had originally written:

     yoHmeH puqloD ghaH ghojmoHta' loD
     "In order that the son be brave, the man taught him."

One problem with this is that I could not find an example of a purpose
clause that had an explicit subject.  I guess I could of used:

     yoHmeH puqloD ghojmoHta' loD
     "In order that he be brave, the man taught the son."

thought it's not necessarily clear who is being brave.

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In line 4 I used the construction:

     <puqloDvaD> blah-blah-blah <ja'pu' loD>"
     "The man told the son, "blah-blah-blah".

The use of <puqloDvaD> would seem to be supported by TDK 6.8 since "the
son" in the English version is an indirect object.

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A couple of other question I encoundered along the way:

1) With the A Q <law'> B Q <puS>, TKD says you can use <Hoch> in the "B"
position -- meaning "A" is most "Q".  Can you also use <Hoch> in the "A"
position -- meaning "B" is least "Q"?

2) In the dictionary there are some words defined that seem to already have
a suffix. (e.g. <ghojmoH> -- to teach).  Are such words deemed to be one
word or
are they, in fact, a root with a suffix?  That is would "be willing to
teach" be *<ghojmoHqang> or *<ghojqangmoH>?  The latter -- which I feel is
most likley to be correct -- seems to present a problem.  I would read <puq
ghojqangmoh> as
"He makes the child willing to learn" not (necessarily) as "He is willing
to teach the child".  Perhaps in Klingon we must use context in cases like
this.


choQaHchugh qatlho'

Qeygh

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