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Re: KLBC: practise

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: KLBC: practise
• Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 22:47:05 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

ja' muHwI':
>vIparHa' be'Hom 'IH ghaHmo'.

ja' Qov:
>Nghgh.  I couldn't understand this clearly in Klingon: I thought you
>were trying to say {be'Hom vIparHa' 'IHmo' ghaH}, then when I went to
>translate it I realized what you did.  It's supposed to say "I like
>her because she is a beautiful girl."  Now I'm not sure whether it's
>hard to parse, or it's just me.  I now understand you are talking
>about Imran.

bImobbe', Qov.  jIyajchu'pa' wejlogh vIlaDnIS jIH.

Putting the suffix {-mo'} on a pronoun is a bit confusing; is it a verb
suffix or a noun suffix?

Anytime an adjectival verb is used as the object of a "to be" sentence,
it seems a bit contrived anyway.  {'IH be'Hom} just sounds a lot better
to me than {be'Hom 'IH ghaH}.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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