tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 24 07:14:28 1996
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Re: roommate for qep'a' wejDich
- From: "Garrett Michael Hayes" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: roommate for qep'a' wejDich
- Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 10:10:09 -0400
- Organization: Client/Server Labs
- Priority: normal
On 18 May 96 at 15:35, Alan Anderson wrote:
> beHwI"av writes:
> >ghitlh 'etlhqengwI':
> > >pIj loD be' je chevbe' tlhIngan Hol 'e' vIHar.
> >"I believe that the Klingon language doesn't seperate men and women often."
>
> You caught the meaning pretty well, but I'd have translated it with the
> word "often" somewhere else. "It doesn't do it often" has a different
> emphasis than "It often doesn't do it", and I think the second meaning
> is more what the Klingon sentence is trying to say.
Actually, "It doesn't do it often" was more what I wanted to say
when I wrote that. (And I *was* attempting to be humorous.) Either
is "correct", but would you have suggested a different structure to
emphasize the placement?
'etlhqengwI'
Garrett Michael Hayes
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