tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jun 08 11:32:37 1997
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RE: KLBC: meaning of first person in plural (maH)>
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: meaning of first person in plural (maH)>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jun 97 18:30:30 UT
[email protected] on behalf of Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen wrote:
> For thos interested in such things, there's a cute joke involving the
> distinction between inclusive and exclusive first person plurals in
Tolkien's
> Elvish from the first book of Lord of the Rings.
And, of course, one of the cutest scenes in the whole book contains a joke
which works just as well when translating from Klingon to English, as it does
when translating from Sindarin to English (and, presumably, from Sindarin to
Westron):
yIjatlh jup 'ej yI'el
Notice my use of {'ej} between two imperatives! Though, I suppose, there's
nothing to prevent me from saying
bIjatlhchugh jup vaj bI'ellaH
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SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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