tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Sep 29 20:50:58 1996
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Re: KLBC: jIyajbe'
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: KLBC: jIyajbe'
- Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 22:53:33 -0500
trI'Qal writes:
>>chaq HolQeD DalaDlaHbe', 'ach pIch DaghajtaH!
>>qaSpu' wa' jar wejlogh <-ghach> QIjlu'chu'.
>
>Hm... I'm not sure about this. Would this be better as <qaStaHvIS wa' jar>?
>I'm having difficulty understanding this as it is. {{:(
It was a compromised (in both senses of the word) translation.
I *really* wanted to say "during the past month", but the terrifically
appropriate {qaSpu'vIS wa' jar} unfortunately isn't legal grammar. It
didn't quite get fixed when I decided to rephrase the idea, I'm afraid.
Does {qaStaHvIS jar rIn} make sense?
>>jabbI'IDghomDaq je De' lI' tu'lu'. yIqIm!
>Unless I am mistaken, you are saying "There is also useful data on this
>list", right? When you use <je> to mean "also", it has to go after the *verb*:
True, and I apologize. I'm guilty of mistreating {je} as if it acted
like {neH}, an adverb-like word which *can* go after nouns. My intended
idea was "There is useful information on the mailing list also." Since
{je} doesn't work the way I want it to ;-), I can't express my focus this
way. I can say what I want by making the sentence more active:
{De' lI' ngaS jabbI'IDghom'e'}.
>A very nice post... I hope all our beginners took the time to work their way
>through this posting! Although it was a bit lengthy, it had many
>easy-to-understand sentences, and quite a few of the common words on the list.
>
>majQa', 'ej qatlho'qu'qa'neS, ghunchu'wI'oy!
SoH qatlho' jIH, jupoy.
-- ghunchu'wI'