tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jun 22 23:07:34 1997
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Re: mughmeH qeq
ja' peHruS:
>...Four days after the rain stopped the boulder fell.
>Thank you all for your analysis. I regret that the sentence did not separate
>into phrases well for you.
jang SuStel:
>SISpu'. qaS loS jaj. pum nagh'a'.
jang charghwI':
>SuS [sic] 'e' mev. qaS loS jaj. pum nagh'a'.
It seems that it separates into phrases quite well...if you don't insist that
it all be stuffed into a single sentence. :-). English is good at packing a
lot of ideas and explanations into an utterance; Klingon is not. Klingon is
good at expressing subtle qualifications of accuracy; English is not. Trying
to mirror complex English phrasing in a Klingon sentence is rarely productive.
-- ghunchu'wI'