tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 03 19:09:45 1997
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Re: rIghwI'mey vIHoH
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: rIghwI'mey vIHoH
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 19:09:39 -0700 (PDT)
At 08:25 AM 9/3/97 -0700, Eduardo Fonseca wrote:
>ghItlh Qov:
>
>> *Edy*, cha'chu'ta' mu'tlheghlIj.
>> Edy, your sentence paints the perfect picture.
>
> batlh jIHtaH 'e' Dochvetlh DaparHa'pu'
> (I'm honored that you had liked that)
"You had liked that thing that I am honour."
You've tried to use the "pronoun as to be" syntax with the noun honour to
express "I am honoured." A pronoun can only work as the verb to be wher what
you "are" is a noun: {verengan SoH, targh bIH} "you are a Ferengi, they are
targs." When the verb to be is expressing a condition or state, Klingon has
a verb that means "be <state>." For example, {SuD} "be blue/green/yellow"
{'IQ} "be sad" and--the one you need--{quv} "be honoured".
The word {'e'} makes the sentence that it follows into the object of the
next sentence. It's not appropriate for every kind of English "that" and it
doesn't work here. The relationship between you being honoured and me
liking your image is that one caused the other. Put the suffix {-mo'} on
the cause.
The word "that" is hard to translate into Klingon: it means a lot of
different things, and sometimes you need to translate a "that" that is only
implied in the English. Notice the English is "liked that" but the Klingon
translates as "liked that thing." This is the correct way to translate
"that" as a demonstrative pronoun.
{Dochvetlh DaparHa'pu'mo' jIquvtaH}
> 'ach HIlugh
"be right me"
To say "cause me to be correct" -- i.e. "correct me" -- add {-moH}. {HIlughmoH}
Qov ([email protected])
Beginners' Grammarian