tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 19 16:52:53 1997
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KLBC: shades of meaning
- From: Caryn Law <[email protected]>
- Subject: KLBC: shades of meaning
- Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 17:51:02 -0700
I was coming up with random sentences for practice translation when I
thought about something. Here are two sentences I need commenting on:
Dajqu'bogh paq vIlaD.
I read a very interesting book.
Dajqu' paq vIlaDpu'bogh.
The book I read was very interesting.
These sentences are slightly different from one another in English; the
first is simply a statement, while the second seems to emphasize, at
least to me, the book which I read and not the book, say, that you read.
My questions are these: 1) do these sentences make sense grammatically
in Klingon first of all, and 2) do they show in Klingon the same shades
of meaning that they do in English?
Thanks....
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Caryn and Lenny Law
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