tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Sep 28 15:43:42 1996
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Re: KLBC: Thinking and compounding
- From: [email protected] (HoD trI'Qal)
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Thinking and compounding
- Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 18:44:37 -0400
At 01:18 PM 9/5/96 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>At 10:05 PM 4/9/96 -0700, you wrote:
>>At 09:18 AM 8/30/96 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
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><...snipped...>
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>bItlho'
>bIlugh
Again, you are quite welcome... and same comment to you about thanking as in
the post just before this one. {{:)
>>Oh, please note that the verb you used <bej> may only mean "to watch" as in,
>>"to observe"; it may or may not contain the connotation of "watch (over)",
>>as in "to protect". For that meaning, you would have to go with <Qan>.
>
>I actually mean big brother as the goverment, this is why I used {bej}
Oooh.... that may be terran-idiomatic. I suspect that Klingons will only
help their kin fight when assistance is requested... or when a kinsman dies...
>paqmey bIwamvIS jIwambe'
>
>SKI: You hunt books while I huntn't (c;
Hmmm... actually, what you have here is the reverse: "I do not hunt while
you are hunting books". To get what you have, reverse which verb has the
-vIS, and which does not.
You also have two small grammar errors: Since you have an object for
<bIwamvIS> (<paqmey>), you need to have a verb-prefix which reflects it. In
this case, you have the "you" subject, and an "it" object, which (looking on
page 33), is Da-. The other error is also a common one: -vIS must ALWAYS
be used with -taH. Many people have recommended that you think of "while"
not as -vIS, but as -taHvIS, as the only times these two will be broken
apart are if you use -neS or -Qo' on that verb as well--and I can't recall
that happening in a very, very long time. Putting all this together:
paqmey Dawam jIwambe'taHvIS
I kept the verbs in the same order you gave them to me.
It is nice to see one of our new speakers tossing phrases into their
primarily "English" posts! maj! keep it up!
>Qapla'
Qapla' yay je!
>beHwI"av
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