tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Oct 13 14:42:37 1997
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Re: it's difficult to endure the pain
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: it's difficult to endure the pain
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 14:42:27 -0700
At 08:58 97-10-13 -0700, edy wrote:
}ja' ghunchu'wI'
}
}> >> You could change it to "It's difficult for me to endure the pain."
}> >> {'oy' vISIQtaHvIS Qatlh ghu'} if that was what you meant.
}> >
}> > We can change the sentence, but the main idea is lost.
}> >"The situation is difficult while I'm enduring the pain"
}>
}> The main idea is lost? The main idea is the difficulty experienced by
}> the one enduring the pain. There are many ways to phrase it without
}> "losing" the idea.
}
} There are 2 sentences: "The pain is difficult for one endure" and
}"The situation is difficult while I'm enduring the pain".
}
} Their subjects are completly different and their meaning too.
}In the first sentence, there is difficulty for everyone and in the second, only
}for me. Okay .. not the main idea, but their meaning is.
Then be clear about what the meaning is. Klingon *does* have the tools to
get the meaning across. Klingon is often MORE specific so we were guessing
about the meaning. A person could say "the pain is difficult to endure " and
be talking about herself, or in general.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian