tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 30 15:55:05 1997
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RE: KLBC: Practicing...
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: Practicing...
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 97 23:44:51 UT
jatlh mIqIraH:
> jatlh SuStel:
>
> > bIQaghbej, 'ach bIghojmeH bIQaghnIS.
>
> "Omelet" DachenmoHlaHbe' "a couple of eggs" Daghorbe'chugh 'e' lujatlh.
For a couple, or a few, you can use {puS}.
Also, when you use verbs of saying, like {jatlh}, you don't use {'e'}. My
reading of this has always been that the quotation is just a second sentence
crammed against the first one, and is not the object of that sentence.
Who are "they"? In English, it is sometimes used to indicate a general
subject, but in Klingon, you've got something which does that: the suffix
{-lu'}.
Finally, there's a Klingon proverb which says almost this same thing (TKW
185):
pIpyuS pach DaSop DaneHchugh pIpyuS puS DaghornIS.
If you want to eat pipius claw, you'll have to break a few pipiuses.
But yours is:
"Omlet" DachenmoHlaHbe' "egg"-mey puS Daghorbe'chugh jatlhlu'.
Better yet:
"Omlet" DavutlaHbe' "egg"-mey puS Daghorbe'chugh jatlhlu'.
You could also put {jatlhlu'} first:
jatlhlu' "omlet" DavutlaHbe' "egg"-mey puS Daghorbe'chugh.
> > Qatlhbe' tlhIngan Hol.
> > pIm neH.
> > loQ mu'mey pab je lughojlu'DI', ngeDqu'.
> > DIvI' Hol Qatlh law' tlhIngan Hol Qatlh puS.
>
> chaq bIlugh 'ach mumoghmoH.
> vaj tlhIngan Hol vIghoj 'e' vInID!
maj. 'oy'be'lu'chugh Qapbe'lu'.
--
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
Stardate 97245.7