tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 05 14:20:26 1996
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Re: maDub
- From: Jarno Peschier <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: maDub
- Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 23:24:12 -0100
At 09:32 4-01-96 -0800, you wrote:
>>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.
I guess leaving it out would have been a good solution. Or maybe ending the
sentence after poHwIj and then adding this: "napqu' ghu vay'. Do'Ha'..." Or
something like this.
Thanks for correcting me.
Qapla'
peSHIr
Jarno Peschier, [email protected], 2:2802/245.1@Fido
162:100/100.1@Agora, 74:3108/102.1@QuaZie, 27:2331/214.1@SigNet
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