tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Sep 28 08:59:13 1996
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Re: KLBC question
- From: [email protected] (HoD trI'Qal)
- Subject: Re: KLBC question
- Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 12:00:02 -0400
At 01:53 PM 9/3/96 -0700, Dark Viper wrote:
>At 05:33 AM 9/3/96 -0700, dpNoll wrote:
>>
>>> Klingon doesn't make their words for races do double-duty like English
>>> sometimes does (you wouldn't call a Frenchman a French, would you?)
>>
>>*Frog* *France*ngan pong vay' ;)
>>Seghmey vItIchbe'
>>(Hivqa' "pong")
>
>nargh *Frog* tIch nuqDaqpu'? Sovlu''a'? qej 'oH!
And this is a classic example of why I request that you include the English
translation of your text when you post under KLBC...
I can't understand this first sentence. <nuqDaq> is a question word meaning
"where". I have no idea in the world why you put -pu' on it... -pu' on a
noun means "plural (things capanle of speech)". Even if you are talking
about multiple "where"s, you would use -mey... and you most assuredly cannot
use that on <nuqDaq>, which is neither noun nor verb--it is <chuvmey>, and
takes no suffixes. You seem to be asking "where do the frog-insults
appear", but I hesitate to correct this, not knowing if that is your true
intention.
You other sentences translate to "Does someone/thing know? It is grouchy."
which are grammatically correct; however, I can't tell you if you got your
intended meaning across, because I don't know what you are trying to say...
>--Dark Viper-----------------------------
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