tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jul 14 11:12:40 1996
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Re: KLBC: pongwI'
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: KLBC: pongwI'
- Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 13:16:59 -0500
Perry Brulotte writes:
>DaH pongwI' tlhIngan Hol vIneHtaHbe'.
>[I don't want my Klingon name anymore.]
"Now I uncontinuously want a namer's Klingon language."
{pongwI'} is ambiguous. I'm inclined to interpret it as a verb+wI', since
if it were a noun+wI' the noun is implied to be capable of using language,
and I don't think names use language. {pongwIj} is correct for "my name".
A a bonus, it doesn't have another interpretation. :-)
The word order as you wrote it is wrong; a "Klingon language name" would be
{tlhIngan Hol pong} (assuming a generous interpretation of noun-noun).
The suffix combination {-taHbe'} is unusual. I can't come up with a good
general english translation for it, but I don't think it negates the verb
in any way. To say "I don't want it anymore" you might rephrase it as
{vIneH 'e' vImev} "I stop that I want it" or {vIneHbe'choH} "I change to
not want it}.
>...a business name of "Mr. Data"...
>De'loD [A compound word meaning "Data Man???".]
Not bad. It's a nice, simple name, with a reasonably obvious meaning too.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj