tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 23 19:49:30 1997
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Re: KLBC: tera'Daq qoD leng
|Eduardo Fonseca wrote:
|> tera'Daq qoD leng
|> Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Julio Verne)
There's a better word available: {botlh} "center, middle" (n). Don't forget
{-Daq} goes at the end of the Noun-Noun phrase:
tera' botlhDaq leng "journey to the-Earth's-center"
The distinction from {qoD} "inside, interior" is subtle, but we might as
well use what tools we have considering the limited vocabulary Maltz has
chosen to reveal to us.
|> qaStaHvIS wa'SaD chorghvatlh javmaH wej DIS jarvagh jaj wa�maH loS,
|> nom juHHomwIjDaq chegh vavwI� loDnI�wI�.
|
|This is not the way Okrand has written years. voragh will
|remember better than I do, but I believe it would be {tera' DIS
|wa'-chorgh-jav-wej jar vagh jaj cha'maH loS}. [...]
|
|charghwI'
reH lugh charghwI':
TM, R c. je tera' DIS wa'-Hut-Hut-loS Paramount Pictures.
TM, R c. 1994 Paramount Pictures. (Skybox copyright notice)
HovpoH Hut vagh cha' wa' vI' jav Dujvam 'aghlu'pu' 'ach Qaw'lu'pu'
[untranslated on Skybox card S33]
This indicates how Klingons read dates aloud: simply list the cardinal
numbers rather like the way most Americans read out telephone numbers, zip
codes, ISBNs, etc. but *not* the way we read dates by grouping the numerals
in twos ("nineteen ninety-seven"). Speakers of other languages read dates
differently, of course:
tysiacha deviat'sot devianosto sed'moi god
"thousand nine-hundred ninety seventh year" (Russian)
(shenat) elef tesha' me-ot tish'im ve-sheva'
"(the year) thousand nine hundred ninety and-seven" (Hebrew)
If you're not sure, you can always use numbers ("1997") in your posts and
let the reader deal with the problem. ;-)
Voragh