tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 16 09:40:48 1996
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Re: targh tIq
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>Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 04:22:31 -0700
>From: "A.Appleyard" <[email protected]>
>ghItlhpu' [email protected] (Subject: Other Skybox stuff):-
> ### Sorry about my previous message with this title, which is merely an echo
>of [email protected]'s message: some work arose here and I had to abort out of
>my emailer quick, and the partly-worked-on message got sent by mistake. ###
>> In the first sentence of S19, we find {labmeH 'evnagh Se' tlhIngan QumwI'},
>> "A Klingon communicator sends a signal through subspace radio." Errr . . .
>> have you noticed that there is no main verb in there? Translating it myself,
>> I come up with "A Klingon communicator, in order that subspace radio
>> frequencies transmit." ...
>Try {lab tlhIngan Qumwi' 'evnagh <radio> lo'} = "A Klingon communicator
>transmits, it uses subspace radio.": and let its first messsage be to Okrand
>to tell him that we need a word for "radio"!
Ah, but that's what he's already given us. The problem is the missing
verb (lo'). {'evnagh Se'} is plainly the term which is translated as
"subspace radio": i.e. "it uses subspace frequencies." No problem there.
No need for the word for "radio," just an explanation of the missing verb
(typo? editing problem? I don't know).
~mark
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