tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat May 04 23:35:45 1996
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Re: KLBC: "Bringer of certain death"
- From: [email protected] (Faber)
- Subject: Re: KLBC: "Bringer of certain death"
- Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 23:33:43 -0700 (MST)
>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.
Wow, did I ever mess that one up! That was probably because I came
up with that phrase in about five minutes.
>If you want to say "certain death", try using the noun suffix {-na'}.
You're right, {-na'} is much better.
>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
Try this one {Heghna' qemwI'}. A little better I hope.