tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu May 16 16:52:13 1996

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Re: lIH'egh vay'

>Christine Tschoegl mupong tera'Daq yInbogh ghotpu'

Hi, Christine.  Welcome to the list!  I'm the Beginners' Grammarian
at present; you can call me ghunchu'wI'.  If you put the codeword
"KLBC" in the subject line of a message, I'll give it priority and
try to answer any questions you have, or give an analysis of your
writing.

You've used the verb {pong} as appropriately as any attempts I've
seen.  It's a little problematical, since Klingon doesn't have an
explicit way to indicate what I believe other languages call a
"predicate nominative", which is the name itself.  Since TKD 6.1
says that nouns which aren't either subject or object come before
the object noun, I think you've done it right, but I can't be sure.

{tera'Daq yInbogh ghotpu'} are usually called {tera'nganpu'}. :-)

>tlhIngan Hol qeqmeH jIjeSlaH 'e' jIquv

"I am honored that..." doesn't translate directly as {'e' jIquv}.
{'e'} is always the object of a sentence (see TKD 6.2.5), and the
verb {quv} doesn't look like it can have an object.  (If it did,
the prefix would have to be {vI-}, but that's irrelevant.)  Does
the sentence "I am honored *because* I can participate..." express
what you wanted to say?  Try using the verb suffix {-mo'}.

Otherwise, this is remarkably clear for a sentence which has three
verbs in it!

>ghurjaj Qapla'

-- ghunchu'wI'               batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj

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