tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 12 08:54:31 1996
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Re: KLBC: Translation
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>Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 18:58:00 -0800
>From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
>
>jatlh HurghwI':
>
>> "No matter where you go, there you are."
>>
>> ram Daq DajaHbogh pa' jIHtaHmo'.
>
>Almost! Of course, you meant {SoHtaHmo'}, right?
>
>Nick would disagree with me on this, but you probably need to say {Daq
>DaghoSbogh}. I don't believe there is any canon to say that {jaH} can take an
>object.
>
>ram Daq DaghoSbogh, pa' SoHtaHmo'.
nuqjatlh? I'm a little puzzled. The structure of this confuses me, and
the meaning doesn't match either.
First off, there's that initial "ram." Either it's a timestamp meaning
"night" (you go someplace at night...) or it's a verb meaning "trivial", in
which case it looks like you're using it adverbially. That would make
sense logically, but I don't recall ever hearing that "ram"/trivial could
be used as an adverb. I could see "Daq ram DaghoSbogh"/the trivial place
you go, but that's not what you said.
The structure as a whole throws me: the place where you go, because you're
there. Um... verb? There's a relative clause and a dependent clause,
there should be a main verb *somewhere*.
How about:
vogh DaghoSchugh, pa' SoH
or use -DI' instead of -chugh. I wonder if "?Hoch vogh" makes sense...
Did you see something I didn't, SuStel?
~mark
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