tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 09 08:52:20 1996
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Re: "Qo'noS ta'puq, Hamlet lotlut. lut 'ay' wa', lut 'ay'Hom
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: "Qo'noS ta'puq, Hamlet lotlut. lut 'ay' wa', lut 'ay'Hom
- Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 11:35:02 -0400 (EDT)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Mark E. Shoulson" at Apr 9, 96 06:41:05 am
According to Mark E. Shoulson:
>
...
> >> 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'?
This is good, except of course for the omitted {-'e'}. Hey, I
caught myself making the same error recently, but apparently
nobody else did...
nuq 'oH paqlIj mI''e'?
> paq loS vIghaj jIH.
paq *D* Daghaj'a' je?
> ~mark
charghwI'
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