tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 28 12:11:36 1997
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Re: Language jokes show English speaking bias...
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>Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 14:13:37 -0700 (PDT)
>From: [email protected]
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>I discovered another of those so-called *language-jokes*:
>{qul} fire is pronounced (roughly!) like "cool"
>and fire is certainly NOT cool...
>qul bIrbe'bej!
You mean "bIrbe'bej qul," right? Don't forget word order. But of course,
what SHOULD be {bIr}, in America? Why, beer, of course! (Unless like me
you have a taste for more room-temperature-ready British brews). And
beer/ale is HIq, because it makes you hiccough, and and and... :)
>lutqoq tlhaQ latlh vISampu'
We've learned that {latlh} precedes, haven't we?
>lut tlhaQqoq wa' vItu'pu'
{wa'}, being a number, also precedes: wa' lutqoq tlhaQ vItu'pu'. Only
type-5 noun-suffixes migrate to the end of a modifying verb-as-adjective.
>(how do I say that correctly?)
>(chay' vIjatlh 'e' jIlugh?)
{chay' vIjatlhchu'?} would be better. Look closely at what you said:
{chay' vIjatlh}/"how do I say it", then {'e'} refers to the previous
sentence ("how do I say it?") as the object of {jIlugh}/"I am right"--which
has no object. You could just use -chu' as I did; that would probably be
the cleanest answer. Or you can get wordy and say {chay' jIlugh
vIjatlhtaHvIS}/"How [can] I be correct while saying it?"
~mark
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