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Re: KLBC: practise

	ghItlh Qov:

> > nI' lang je tlhomDaj 'ej baSmey yuvHa' 'oH'e' 'e' lujatlh 
> > jupDu'qoqDaj 'ach teHbe' 'oH.
> >
> > (His "friends" said that his nose is long and thin and it draws the
> > metals, but it's not true).
> 
> This is one of the reasons I am glad that non-native English speakers 
> are learning Klingon.  "draws the metals" isn't a phrase I have ever 
> heard before but I can guess it means "acts like a magnet."  Is the 

	That was I want to mean.

> whole expression about his nose an idiom in Portugeuse?  Or is it 
> just a very strange thing you thought of?  It does work pretty well, 
> {yuvHa'} is clearer in than "draws" and it's certainly an intersting 
> picture.  A few problems to fix up:

	eheh .. It's not an idiom. It's the literal translation from the book. 
I think I could translate it without more problems. The character of this
phrase  is a geologist.

 
> {nI'} and {lang} are verbs, so to connect them you ned to use {'ej} 
> the conjunction for verbs not {je} as for nouns.  The word for "nose" 
> is {ghIch}, perhaps you're confused with {tlhon}, nostril.  Friends 
> are not body parts, so the plural is {juppu'qoqDaj}.
> The {'oH} after {baSmey yuvHa'} is optional, and the {-'e'} suffix 
> definitely unnecessary emphasis.  Same at the end, {teHbe'} would be 
> sufficient.  You don't need to say "... and *IT* draws metals but IT 
> is not true."
> Remember that verbs of saying do not take {'e'} and that the thing 
> said is not the object of the verb of saying ({jatlh}).

> With my suggestions: 
> 
> nI' 'ej lang ghIchDaj 'ej baSmey yuvHa' 'oH jatlh juppu'qoqDaj 'ach 
> teHbe'.

	I'm preety close. Getting better!!!  :-))

 
> baSmey yuvHa'be'chugh ghIchDaj vaj chay' Huch chIlpu'bogh SamlaH 
> ghaH? :)

	:-)))   baSmey yuvHa'laH ghIchDaq 'ach *gold* *silver* joq yuvHa'laHbe' 
 'oH


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