tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 09 06:37:29 1996
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Re: "Qo'noS ta'puq, Hamlet lotlut. lut 'ay' wa', lut 'ay'Hom
>Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 13:29:18 -0700
>From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
>According to Alan Anderson:
>> lengmeH loS jaj neH poQ'a'? chaq qIgh lo'.
>>
>> >mI' cha'vatlh cha'maH wej ngaS chovnatlhwIj.
>> >DaH ngoD Daj vISovqang: nuq mI' ngaS chovnatlhra'?
>>
>> chovnatlhwIjDaq mI' wa'vatlh cha'maH cha' ghItlhlu'.
>>
>> The translation of "what number" troubles me. I can't quite convince
>> myself that {nuq mI'} is the right way to say it, but I also can't come
>> up with a better way to express it.
>I agree that {nuq mI'} sounds wrong. In English, "what" can be
>used either as a noun ("What is that?) or an adjective ("What
>number do you have?"). In Klingon, {nuq} acts as a noun only.
In one of the tapes, I recall a question asked of a hotel guest: nuq 'oH
mI'lIj'e', tera'ngan? We can do the same:
nuq 'oH paqlIj mI'?
paq loS vIghaj jIH.
~mark