tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 22 14:15:53 1995
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Re: Let's try that again...
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Let's try that again...
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 17:16:07 -0500
Richard P. Williamson writes:
>1. "Death awaits you all, with nasty great pointy teeth..."
>-> <Klinglish> you(all) are-awaited-by Death's teeth ugly, sharp(augm)
> lIloS Hegh HoDu' moH jej'a'...
{jej} is a verb. It's acting adjectivally here, but it's still a verb,
and it cannot take the noun suffix {-'a'}. If you want to emphasize it,
you may use the verb suffix {-pu'}. Watch your spelling; you lost the
{'} in the middle of {Ho'Du'}. I really shouldn't comment on what you
call "Klinglish," but you need to remember that the subject comes after
the verb. {lIloS} does not mean "you(all) are-awaited-by," it really
does mean "[he/she/it/they] await(s) y'all."
>2. "Customer Support Engineer"
>-> technician who helps users
> lo'wI' ngaqbogh chamwI'
...or "a user who is supported by a technician," since you haven't marked
either the subject or object as the head noun of the phrase. You need
to say {chamwI''e'} in order to indicate that this phrase is referring to
a *technician*. But why use {chamwI'}? I think {ngaqwI'} works better.
Also, you've changed the scope from "customer" to "user," and that's going
to cost you more money if you have to support people who haven't bought
anything. :-)
>3. "Wind River Systems"
> SuS bIQtIq patDu'
{-Du'} is used ONLY for body parts, and I don't think that's what you
intend to imply here.
>4. rIp -> council (v), so councillor? rIpwI'?
No. {rIp} is "council, assembly (n)" -- it's not a verb. I'm not sure
what "council" would mean as a verb anyway. Note that {rIp} is one of
the "one-way-only" entries in the dictionary. I don't see it listed in
the English->Klingon side, although its apparent synonym {yej} is given
in both directions.
You probably want "counsel" and "counselor" instead. Decide whether you
mean "help" or "suggest" or something else and work from there.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj