tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 26 18:22:12 1997
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Re: lut tlhaQ
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: lut tlhaQ
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 18:22:08 -0700 (PDT)
At 07:32 AM 8/26/97 -0700, ter'eS wrote:
>At 11:28 PM 8/25/97 -0700, muHwI' wrote:
>>Now that I do understand your joke (it IS funny)
>>DaH lut tlhaQ vIyajchu'. tlhaQqu'.
teH. ngo' 'ach tlhaQtaH.
>>> tlhIngan tach 'el wa' tera'ngan.
>>Why do you say {wa' tera'ngan} ?
>>Isn't it enough to say {tera'ngan},
>>or do you want to say "ONE terran"
>>instead of "A terran"?
>
>This is just a style I like. I'm trying for the
>feel of the English formula for such jokes: "A man
>walks into a bar..."
I won't argue with your sense of style, and there is nothing wrong with
saying wa' loD, but the translation of "A man goes into a bar" *is* "tach
'el loD."
Qov ([email protected])
Beginning Beginners' Grammarian