tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Dec 18 20:54:11 1997
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Re: KLBC: Short and Easy
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Short and Easy
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 23:54:10 -0500 (EST)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (message fromQov on Tue, 16 Dec 1997 01:00:40 -0800 (PST))
>Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 01:00:40 -0800 (PST)
>From: Qov <[email protected]>
>
>At 06:35 97-12-15 -0800, edy wrote:
>}>By request, here is a KLBC challenge for those who find that translating
>}>takes so long that it is exhausting to read most postings. The challenge is
>}>simple:
>}
>}>chay' yuQvam wIchargh?
>}
>}wa'DIch yuQvetlhDaq nejwI' wIngeH muD QulmeH vaj wa'DIch mID wIchenmoH
>}"First, we send a probe to that planet in order to research it then we
>build }the first colony"
>
>Unless this is something else I'm missing from KGT, we can't use the ordinal
>numbers as adverbials. As far as I know, {wa'DIch} means first as in {nagh
>wa'DIch} ("first rock") but not as in "first we must ..."
Yeah, this is something that bothered me from the first time I heard taHjaj
wo' (Krankor's Klingon anthem). There's that line in the tlhegh wejDIch
that goes "... 'ach Heghmaj yIpIHQo' ghaytan wa'DIch jagh'e' wIHeghmoHmo'"
(I can't sing it as written, I always sing DIHeghmoHmo'--and Krankor has
given me permission to do so--but that's not relevant here). That's an
adverbial use of "first" (as in "firstly" or "before that", which may be
slightly different in meaning). But what are you going to do? It's in the
song, and I like the song anyway.
~mark