tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 11 03:22:13 1996
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Re: Having heard through Power Klingon...
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Having heard through Power Klingon...
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 06:21:32 -0400
- Organization: Internet & Systems Security Lab, Hewlett-Packard Company
- References: <[email protected]>
Nick Nicholas wrote:
> 2. For "you do not deserve to live" on the opening dialogue, I heard
> it as a reasonably clear "DayIntaH 'e' Daqotlhbe'".
I still hear "bIyIntaH", which is more grammatical. And
"disable" is {Qotlh}, not {qotlh}. Of course, "You don't tickle that
you continue to live!" could just be one of those odd Klingon idioms.
:)
> the Klingon trader's accent, btw; in my book, his Klingon is just
> about as good (and certainly more agressive!) than Okrand's.
jIQochbe'.
> 3. To my exasperation, PK has both transitive and intransitive usages > of "tagh". Here's hoping this is not a general trend...
I thought {tagh} was already clearly transitive from the "initiate"
gloss. The fact that it can be used intransitively as well is
convenient - too much so. A sad Englishish muddying of the waters - I
would have preferred {tagh'egh} for that case. (Actually, I would
have preferred an intransitive base verb transitivized in the usual
way with {-moH}, but for some reason Dr. Okrand didn't consult with
me when developing the original vocabulary . . .)
-marqoS
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