tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 20 23:42:24 1997
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RE: HoH'egh pagh HoH'eghbe'
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: HoH'egh pagh HoH'eghbe'
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 97 00:01:23 UT
jatlh SuSvaj:
> ghItlh SuStel
>
> > > Huvbe'bej tlhIngan HoH'egh tIgh.
> >
> > <Huv> yIlo'Qo'. yIjatlh <Qatlh tlhIngan tIgh>.
> >
> > jIQochbe'.
>
> bIlugh, *Huv* vIlo'be'nIS. 'ach <Qatlh tlhIngan tIgh> 'e' vIjatlh
> vIneHbe'.
<jatlh> Dalo'DI', <'e'> yIlo'Qo'.
<<Qatlh tlhIngan tIgh> jIjatlh vIneHbe'>
HIja'! *SkyBox SP3*-Daq jatlh Okrand:
motlh ray' luSamlaHmeH De' Qatlh cha' tlhIngan Duj jIH'a'.
The main viewer on a Klingon ship is usually overlaid with a complex target
acquisition grid.
The point is that the word {Qatlh} can mean "complex" just as much as it means
"difficult." I remember this from a line in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy: "Arthur's next question is very complex and difficult, and Zaphod's
answer is wrong in every important respect."
So, {Qatlh tlhIngan tIgh} means "Klingon customs are very complex." If you
used the word "difficult," you might be thinking "difficult to perform," but
that's not what I meant. If you wish to disambiguate:
{yajmeH Qatlh tlhIngan tIgh}.
> tlhIngan HoH'egh tIgh vIyajbe' 'e' vIjatlh vIneH.
yIjatlh: <<HoH'eghmeH tlhIngan tIgh vIyajbe'> jIjatlh vIneH.>
> pagh, chaq
> tlhIngan tIgh yajbe' DS9 qonwI'pu'.
teHlaw' Hoch mu'tlhegh. vaj <pagh> yIjatlhQo'. <qoj> yIjatlh.
--
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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