tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Sep 04 14:38:48 1997
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Re: KLBC:DuSaQDaq
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC:DuSaQDaq
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 97 19:07:40 UT
[email protected] on behalf of Qov wrote:
> At 08:06 PM 9/3/97 -0700, jeyD wrote:
>
> >ma'Hu' DuSaQDaq jIjaHchoH.
> >Today I went (back) to school.
>
> {wa'Hu'}: w not m.
{wa'Hu'} would be fine for "yesterday." The English translation says "today,"
which would be {DaHjaj}. Pick one.
> "go to school" is an English idiom meaning attend school.
> "I would translate {DuSaqDaq jIjaHchoH} as "I set off for school" not, as
> you intended, "I started the routine of attending school."
>
> Perhaps {jIjaHqa'taH} or {jIchegh} - but as far as we know these refer to
> your going to the physical building of the school, and it's not the going --
> the busing, walking or biking -- that you're talking about here, it's the
> being there, right? How about something like:
>
> wa'Hu DuSaQDaq jIHqa'. - Yesterday I resumed being at school.
Since Klingon doesn't seem to have a word for "attend," I think the best way
to say this would be
wa'Hu' DuSaQDaq jIHaDqa'
Yesterday I resumed studying at school.
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SuStel
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