tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Sep 14 07:32:07 1997
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Re: qaStaHvIS poH jIQubtaH
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: qaStaHvIS poH jIQubtaH
- Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 10:32:04 -0400 (EDT)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (message from Qov on Tue,9 Sep 1997 22:25:50 -0700 (PDT))
>Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 22:25:50 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Qov <[email protected]>
>
>At 10:47 AM 9/9/97 -0700, you wrote:
>>In ST7 Soran says to Picard, "Time is the fire in which we all burn." Just
>>thinking about how this would be expressed in tlhIngan Hol. To say "We all
>>burn in a fire" we'd write qulDaq meQ Hoch. But how could we say that time
>>is the fire and use a locative as one of the two nouns? We can't say
>>*qulDaq'e' meQ Hoch 'oH poH'e'* (let's ignore for now the fact that poH is
>>not 'time' in the sense I refer to) or the other way around - both would
>>require 2 Type-5 noun suffixes.
Right, the ship-in-which-I-fled problem, FAQ
http://labs.thomtech.com/~dspeers/klingon/faq.htm#3.6
I believe there is no known way to use an oblique object of a relative
clause as the head-noun, and apparently that's not unusual for a language.
~mark