tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 26 19:42:48 1996
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RE: KLBC: Hov leng qep wa'DIch
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: Hov leng qep wa'DIch
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 96 22:10:24 UT
November 25, 1996 10:01 PM, jatlh De'vuch:
> ** warning: there may be spoilers below **
lut vIleghta'mo', bIDo'. jIjanglaH.
> wejHu' *Hov leng qep wa'DIch* vIleghpu'.
Don't try to use an aspect suffix as tense. You hadn't already seen it as of
three days ago. That *is* when you saw it. {wejHu' "Star Trek: First
Contact" vIbej.} (I like to keep Star Trek titles in English -- just my
preference -- and I decided to use {bej} instead of {legh}. The first means
the act of continually watching, whereas the second means seeing something
with your eyes but does not include the monitoring idea.)
> Daj vIQubpu'.
nuqjatlh? Maybe you mean {Daj 'e' vIQub} "I thought it was interesting."
Again, don't try to use aspect as tense.
> Dapar be'nalwI'. valbe' be'nalwI'.
You used the wrong suffix on {par}. {par be'nalwI'}.
> moH borghngan chu'. HurHa' Duj luyIt pIqard worIv je.
Is *{borghngan} something Okrand has used? Without knowing this for sure,
I'll recommend that you just say "borg," including the quotation marks.
> ^Zephram Cochrane^ luqIHpu' vulqanganpu'. tera'nganpu' 'Itlh, luQub
> vulqanganpu' 'e' mumer.
I'll accept the aspect on the first part, because it was finished by the time
we get to the second part. You've missed the {'e'} for {Qub} again, and you
got a phrase backwards: {'Itlh tera'nganpu' 'e' luQub vulqanganpu'}.
Also, you need to use a third-person singular object on the second verb of a
sentence-as-object construction, and {mu-} isn't one. Reword this:
{'Itlh tera'nganpu' 'e' luQubmo' vulqanganpu', jImer}.
Because the Vulcans thought that the Terrans were advanced, I was surprised.
pIvghor lu'oghmo' tera'ngan, 'Itlhba'. vaj Such vulqangan. pImqu' tera'
tIgh, 'ach Sarmo', juppu' chu' tu'pu' vulqanganpu'. (Say *that* out loud!)
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