tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Sep 05 13:11:23 1996
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Re: KLBC: Klingon poem
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Klingon poem
- Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 21:59:51 +0200
At 10:03 PM 4/9/96 -0700, you wrote:
>At 09:10 AM 8/30/96 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>>suvta'
>
>capItalS. {{:)
>
>This really means, "they had (intentionally) fought"... ie, they had fought
>before, in the past of this story. I don't believe that this is what the
>original poster had in mind. {{:)
Apart from the missing capital, nothing is wrong, the verb type 7 suffix
{-ta'} means "accomplished, done", thusly {Suvta'} translated means "They
accomplished fighting"
>>Hegh bIH SuvwI'
>
>Unfortunately, I'm not even sure WHAT this translates to... <bIH> doesn't
>belong in there at all, as it is a pronoun which means "multiple items not
>capable of speech". You only have one warrior here, and he is dying,
>true... but what does <bIH> have to do with it?
I wanted to write {Hegh ghaH SuvwI'} with the meaning "The warrior, him and
nobody else, dies". (This is a liberal translation.)
>Other than the comments I mentioned above, yes. {{:)
bItlho'
Qapla'
beHwI"av