tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 13 12:31:31 1996
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Re: KLBC:qatlh jIH
>Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 09:10:36 -0800
>From: "David A. Terhune" <[email protected]>
>On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Robert E. Newcombe wrote:
>> nuqneH,
>>
>> chu'be'lu' De'wI'wIj
Hmm... "-lu'" implies that the subject is unspecified... so why do you have
"De'wI'wIj" in the subject place? Perhaps you mean "something un-triggered
my computer..." I'd use "chu'Ha'lu'" for that, incidentally. And put the
computer in the object place, where it belongs:
De'wI'wIj chu'Ha'lu'.
>> jIDo'be'choHqu' , De'wI''utlh vIHoHqangqu'
"I have *become* unlucky [I presume you're emphasizing that you were lucky
before?], I am very willing to kill the computer-officer."
Good luck with that sysadmin. :)
Remember that "-qu'" is a rover and emphasizes what comes before it.
> SoHvaD vIje'laHbogh yuch vIghajbe'
Looks like you got the same word-order problem as the first author: the
"yuch" is the *object* of the verb "vIje'laH[bogh]"; it must come before
it.
~mark