tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 13 15:13:23 1996
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Re: TLHINGAN-HOL digest 753
Thus spake you, [email protected]:
> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 96 22:54:36 UT
> From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: KLBC: Translation
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> > >> ram Daq DajaHbogh pa' jIHtaHmo'.
> > >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.
I still disagree, because I think this is an unduly restrictive reading of
TKD. The dictionary says ghoS *and other directional verbs* need not take
-Daq. As far as I can see it, if one directional verb other than ghoS can
take no -Daq, it's jaH. David and I have locked horns on this in Much Ado,
and I've referred it to Mark for arbitration :-) .
> What I'm saying is that {jaH} does not take an object. Just as you don't say
> "I go the Great Hall," you also don't say *{vaS'a' vIjaH}. You say "I go *to*
> the Great Hall" {vaS'a'Daq jIjaH}. You can also say "I approach the Great
> Hall" {vaS'a' vIghoS}. You *could* say "I approach to the Great Hall"
> {vaS'a'Daq jIghoS}, but it's a little redundant.
David, you already know how much esteem I have for arguing Klingon syntax
from English syntax...
As for 'forgive', I myself have used noDHa' in _Mark_; is that what people
have been thinking of?
--
http://daemon.apana.org.au/~opoudjis NICK NICHOLAS; LINGUISTICS,
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE [email protected]
"Some of the English might say that the Irish orthography is very Irish.
Personally, I have a lot of respect for a people who can create something
so grotesque." -- Andrew Rosta