tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 04 09:29:10 1996
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Re: maDub
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: maDub
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 12:29:08 -0500
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (message from JarnoPeschier on Tue, 2 Jan 1996 11:39:53 -0800)
>Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 11:39:53 -0800
>From: Jarno Peschier <[email protected]>
>At 14:04 1-01-96 -0800, you wrote:
><vay' jIpe'pu'>
>>HochvaD:
>>SuDub DaneHchugh vaj qechmeyraj boDelnIS.
>bIlughchu' 'ach jIghojnIS je. jIvumnIS je.
>tlhIngan Hol vIlo'choHmeH yapbe' poHwIj 'e' nap jay'!
You were going great until the second-to-last word. I particularly liked
that you realized to say "yapbe' poHwIj" instead of some Englishy thing
about possessing time which is not sufficient. But you're trying to use
"'e'" to make a sentence-as-subject construction, which doesn't exist in
Klingon. "nap" doesn't take an object, so far as I can see, so what is
"'e'" doing? You're trying to say "My time does not suffice; that is
simple", but you can't, since that would be a sentence-as-subject
construction. Besides, it's an Englishism for "simply." Maybe leave it
out altogether, or try an idiom like "yapbe' poHwIj. pItlh, va." Hmm,
maybe that's not so good.
~mark