tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jul 05 07:15:23 1996
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Re: Translating my name...
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>Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 15:32:46 -0700
>From: [email protected]
>ghItlh Rick R.:
>>My copy of TKD tells me that:
>>Rot/Red= Doq
>>man= loD
>ok..
>>Since tlhingon speech is NOUN, VERB, and ANYTHING ELSE,
>tlhIngan sentences are actually ADJECTIVES etc... OBJECT-VERB-SUBJECT
Huh? Klingon has no adjectives, only verbs used adjectivally following
nouns.
>>would it be correct
>>then to translate <Rottman> into loD'Doq?
>You could do this, but it doesn't translate into red man. First you need to get
>rid of the {'}. If anything I see this as "It is a red man" (without the ')
No, it's a noun phrase, not a sentence: {loD Doq} means "a/the red
man/men."
~mark
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