tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 14 17:12:09 1996
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Re: KLBC:qatlh jIH
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC:qatlh jIH
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 18:11:34 -0500 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Lord Havelock Sinister" at Feb 14, 96 04:49:40 am
I think {qatlh jIH} would be a lot clearer if the thought
behind it were more explicitly expressed, as in:
qatlh chowIv?
qatlh jIDo'Ha'?
qatlh jIvangnIS jIH?
and other wimpy terran sentiments...
charghwI'
According to Lord Havelock Sinister:
>
> In reply to the comment raised by Alan Anderson regarding "qatlh
> jIH," in which he said that the phrase tends to parse for him as "why
> am I," I'd like to add the following:
>
> The term jIH can mean "It is I" as much as "I am." tlhIngan Hol makes
> no apparent distinction between the two, except, perhaps, in the use
> of the Type 5 suffix -'e' when the meaning of "I" needs to be emphasised.
>
> So "qatlh jIH" can have the meaning "Why is it me?" or simply, "Why
> me?" because, as a pronoun, "jIH" means "I, me" as much as "I am."
>
> The actual usage of the pronouns can be found in The Klingon
> Dictionary, sections 5.1 (pages 51 - 52) and 6.3 (pages 67 - 68).
> The topic suffix "-'e'" can be found in Section 3.3.5 (page 29).
>
> qay'be'.
>
> Lord Havelock.
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