tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 30 00:46:24 1995
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Re: KLBC: A Name
- From: Jarno Peschier <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: A Name
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 09:48:26 -0100
At 18:57 29-11-95 -0800, you wrote:
>peSHIr writes:
>>If you think Hos'etlh is you name, then it's your name. No problem with
>>that, even if "Hos'etlh" would not be grammatically correct Klingon in
>>itself, which it isn;t.
>
>Ignoring the misspelling of {S}, I believe it IS grammatically correct.
>{HoS 'etlh} means "Sword of Strength" or "power's sword", and we normally
>let pairs of nouns be joined as a compound to mean the same thing as the
>two words separated by a space.
Mmm, he gave the translation as "Strong Sword" or something, and I didn't
bother to really look it up, so I figured HoS was (just) the verb "(to be)
strong". Of course I overlooked the fact that HoS is also the noun for
strength. Verb/noun combinations are not correct Klingon, noun/noun
combinations are. You're right.
Qapla'
peSHIr
Jarno Peschier, [email protected], 2:2802/245.1@Fido
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