tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 28 12:21:42 1997
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Re: KLBC: Introduction to the Black Fleet
- From: "Robyn Stewart" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Introduction to the Black Fleet
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 12:21:29 PST
- Organization: NLK Consultants, Inc.
- Priority: normal
SuStel wrote:
> [email protected] on behalf of [email protected] wrote:
>> lutDaj 'oH lutvam'e'.
>> tam logh.
>> bir logh net Sov.
>> chuSmo' SuvwI' yIn 'e' wIlIjlaw'
>It took me a minute to parse this, but it's very good!
I thought it an error. If you translate it literally you can come up
with: "Because a warrior's life is noisy we forget it." I think it is
the noiselessness of space Hat considers we forget. But this is a
sentence-as-object construction so the "it" cannot refer to the lines
above, has to refer to "because a warrior's life is noisy." I don't
like the idea of having a sentence fragment as the object of a
sentence as object. So yIn has to be interpreted as a verb, here. I
get something like: "We seem to forget that they/she/he/it live(s)
because a warrior/warriors is/are noisy." SuStel, jImISchugh yIQIj.
Perhaps:
chuSmo' SuvwI' yIn ngoDvam wIlIjlaw'.
wIlIjlaw' chuSmo' SuvwI' yIn.
>> 'ach qawbej vay.
> vay'. With a glottal stop.
YES. I heard vay for vay' rather a lot at qep'a'. Stop it. vay' is
a vague enough word without having to pause to figure out that it is
the word being used at all.
>> lIjlaHbe'chu' yo' qIj vajpu'.
> {lIjlaHbe'chu'} "perfectly cannot forget." This is pretty weird.
> Even reading the English, I'm not sure what you're after. I think
> you mean this:
I have no trouble with it. I would translate it: The warriors of the
Black Fleet are utterly unable to forget. I might recommend
lulIjlaHbe'chu' - are utterly unable to forget *it*, but it depends
what HoDHat means.
>> loghDaq QIch tu'lu'be'.
> That's an interesting way to put it.
"There is no speech in space?" qatlh Daj?
- HotHat ghovlaw'bogh Qov'e' ;)
Robyn Stewart [email protected]
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