tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 06 18:01:52 1997
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RE: KLBC: <lan> jIyajbe'
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: <lan> jIyajbe'
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 97 00:56:01 UT
jatlh SI'IluD:
> I am taking David Barron's postal course and am up to lesson 6.
> <David Barron> paQDI'norgh vIghoj 'ej qeq jav vIHaDlI'
vaj pablIj vIlughmoH neH. qaQaHlaHbe'.
(By the way, David Barron, if anybody ever asked me a question which appears
on your postal course, I wouldn't recognize it, and I'd be giving it away!)
> Sentence 9 uses the verb <lan>
> wot <lan> lo' mu'tlhegh Hut
A bit of apposition with {wot <lan>}, but we can do that. I try to avoid
overdoing it, though, as it can get confusing.
> How does one use the verb <lan>?
> chay' wot <lan> lo'lu'
maj. 'ach bIjangmeH bIlaDnIS SoH'e'
> >From exercise 6, sentence 9:
> qeq javvo' mu'tlhegh Hut: <naDev lannISbe' Dochvetlh'e'>
This would do as clipped Klingon. There's no main verb.
Hmmm . . . does the sentence really say that?
> I translate it as (guessing)
> vImughlaw' <That thing doesn't go here.>
I don't know how quotations work with verbs like {mugh}, but probably treat
them as the objects of the verb. Otherwise, I'd have to use {jI-} instead of
{vI-}.
And {-law'} doesn't mean you're guessing about how accurate your translation
is. It means you're guessing that you are translating at all!
> Does the verb work in this sentence? <I put the pet out>
> mu'tlheghvamvaD Qap'a' wot <HurDaq Saj vIlan>
maj. 'ach jIjanglaHbe'taH!
>
> Thanks in advance
> qatlho' chojangpa'
Heh . . . that's right, too!
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SuStel
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