tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 22 00:42:55 1995
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Re: nuqneH
On Sat, 21 Jan 1995, William H. Martin wrote:
> According to tlhIyQa:
> > nuqneH. tlhIyQa jIH, ghojwI' je ghItlhwI'.
>
> Noun conjunctions go AFTER the list of nouns, not between them.
> The appositive is a little shaky -- we're not sure it is okay,
> but then we are not sure it is not okay.
just a style suggestion here. instead of trying to form an appositive
here, i'd break the sentence into two:
<tlhIyQa jIH. ghojwI' ghItlhwI' je jIH.>
this may get your point across a little clearer, as it doesn't cross into
grammatically shaky boundaries.
> > *Latin* Hol vIjatlh.
>
> Fine. Some might argue that *Rome*ngan Hol would be a better
> term...
personally, here i'd either use <*Roman* Hol> or <*Latin* Hol>. after
all, most people on the list refer to english as <*English* Hol>, not
<*England*ngan Hol>. *shrug* but maybe that's a personal bias against
constructing compound nouns in klingon... don't mind if you do it, as
long as i can understand it, i just prefer not to...
> > tlhIyQa
>
> charghwI'
--naQ'avwI'
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