tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 09 04:59:13 1997
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Re: KLBC: vIghojqa'
On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Qov wrote:
> At 15:12 97-10-11 -0700, 'olIva wrote:
>
> }vIQapba'.
> }I won, of course.
>
> {jIQapba'}. vay' DaQaplaHbe', bIQap neH. No object.
Did you mean that <Qap> can't take an object, ever, or just that I
shouldn't have given it one there? (I know that my English translation
doesn't have an object, but I was really trying to say "I won *them* [i.e.
the battles]".) I interpreted this as saying that <Qap> was intransitive,
but I found this on the wordlist in the KLI website:
| Qap
|
| win (a competition) (v.t.) {from Okrand's notes, HolQeD Vol. 2, No. 4}
| ["'To win' a competition is Qap. (If it's a decisive or particularly
| gratifying victory, they'd say Qapchu', even though that's a bit
| redundant.) In TKD, Qap is translated as 'succeed, work, function. To a
| Klingon, to win is to function perfectly.] {TKW page 211}
vay' QaplaH'a' vay'?
Can someone win something?
may' QaplaH'a' vay'?
Can someone win a battle?
Also, is <wo'rIv> considered to be canon? It was in the wordlist, but Marc
Okrand seemed to be deliberately avoiding giving Worf's Klingon name in
KGT, referring to him as <mogh puqloD>, as if he wasn't happy with
<wo'rIv>.
'olIva'
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