tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 03 20:58:00 1996
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Re: KLBC-"Bringer of certain death"
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: KLBC-"Bringer of certain death"
- Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 23:00:54 -0500
HoHwI' writes:
> Okay, I'm trying to say (as a title/name of an entity) "Bringer of
>Death". I got this far *qemwI' Heghbej*. Now this seems good to me but I
>have a sneaking suspicion, I'm saying "the bringer's death".
"He certainly dies the bringer." {-bej} is a verb suffix, so {Hegh} is
obviously a verb in this phrase. Since "die" doesn't really work with an
object, the end result is pretty strange.
If you want to say "certain death", try using the noun suffix {-na'}.
And your suspicion is justified -- to say "X of Y", Klingon puts the
words in the order {Y X}. That's the same order as English, by the
way; "bringer of death" is "death bringer".
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj