tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 17 00:19:27 1997
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Re: KLBC Challenge: similar suffixes (fwd)
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC Challenge: similar suffixes (fwd)
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 00:19:09 -0800
At 15:08 97-12-15 -0800, HovqIj wrote:
}Here are my sentences:
}
}{'a'}: SuvwI''a' ghaH'a'? - Is (s)he a great warrior?
maj.
}{wI'}: HIghwI' ghaHbe' jupwI' 'e'. - My friend is not an unhonorable fighter.
The {-'e'} needed in this sentence is the suffix {-'e'} not the word {'e'},
so it should be {jupwI''e'}. Possibly your editor just didn't let you
notice the extra space.
}{lI'}: SoH DunejlI' vavlI'. - Your father is (continuously) looking for you.
"Your father is in search of you" could be a smoother translation. You know
that the word {SoH} in't needed because {Du-} provides the same information?
Putting in {SoH} tends to suggest that your father i looking for YOU, as
opposed to someone or something else.
}{pu'}: Haw'pu' romulusnganpu'. - The Romulans fled.
They "have fled", "will have fled" or "had fled."
}{mo'}: HeSwI' lujonmo', weHDajmo' luHuplaH. -
}Because (I know... never start a sentence with "because"...)
As an aside, the strictures from your English teacher never to start a
sentence with a conjunction were to prevent your slower classmates from
calling phrases like "because it rained yesterday" sentences. When you know
better you can relax about those "rules."
}they captured the criminal, they could blame him for his hold-up
}(Is "hold-up" right for {weH}? I still have $�&*'# German TKD.)
I'm afraid {weH} is the verb "raid." Thanks for the translation.
DumoghmoHlaHba' mu'ghomqoqvetlh! You could use {HeS} again
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian