tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat May 18 11:37:47 1996
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Re: KLBC:UK "Proverb"
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: KLBC:UK "Proverb"
- Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 13:40:58 -0500
nuqHm writes:
>Don't kick the dog up the bum when you've got your hand in its mouth !
>[surely words of infinite wisdom !]
charghwI' is right -- why care about *where* you don't kick the dog?
>I've gotten this far...
>
>*up the bum* targh yIpupQo' 'oHtaHvIs ghoplIj nujDajDaq
>
>broken down as follows...
>
>*up the bum* (sic!)
>
>targh - ~Dog
>
>yIpupQo' - Don't you kick it
So far, so good.
>'oHtaHvIs - whilst it is ongoing (that)
>
>ghoplIj - your hand
>
>nujDajDaq - his mouth - locative (is in his mouth ?)
No, you're missing the structure of this sentence. In order to express
"it is in his mouth", Klingon says {nujDajDaq 'oH}. To add a definite
noun as the subject, that noun goes after the pronoun/verb, and gets the
suffix {-'e'} (see TKD section 6.3). So this idea becomes:
{...nujDajDaq 'oHtaHvIS ghoplIj'e'}.
>Look as I might, I could find nothing even CLOSE to rephrase "up the bum"!
Among friends, I might use slang, but I won't encourage it among beginners.
>Complements on teh Klingon Way and the Book of Suffixes (it has already
>started to preserve the spine of my TKD !)
Sounds like you need to make yourself some personalized reference sheets!
Separate lists of prefixes and suffixes save *lots* of wear and tear on TKD.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj