tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 17 11:32:16 1996
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Re: chollI' qep''a'
[email protected] (Soqra'tIS) writes:
> <...vIteqlu'pu'...>
\ > "I have been removed"? Ouch. Do'Ha'.
\
\ "I have removed it" vInIDta'. majHa''a'. "<...SnIp...>" vInejpu'. yIqeSnIS.
"I have removed it" would be just {vIteqpu'}, no {-lu'}. The {-lu'} makes
the subject indefinite, and turns the subject indicated by the prefix into
the object, thus {vIteqlu'pu'} "Someone/something has removed me" or
"I have been removed".
For <...Snip...>, you could use just {teqpu'lu'} "It has been removed",
although you might want to mention what it is that's been removed.
{yIqeSnIS} means "Need to advise!" - you are ordering someone to need,
not ordering them to advise. If you want to instruct someone to advise you,
that'd be {HIqeS}. If you want to say "You need to advise me", you
could say {choqeSnIS}.
(If you want to say that you need them to advse you [you're doing the
needing here], then that's a lot more complicated, if not impossible,
since any of the even vaguely straightforward translations require either
a verb for "to need" or a clause-as-subject structure, neither of which
exists in Klingon.)
-marqoS
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