tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 05 12:23:57 1998
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Re: Exercises?
On Sat, Aug 01, 1998 at 12:09:10AM -0700, Robyn Stewart wrote:
> Translate into Klingon:
>
> The brigadier is hungry.
ghung 'ech.
> The night is dark.
Hurgh ram.
> She exhausted him.
taQbangpu'. How do you avoid the ambiguity since pronouns are optional?
> I wait for you(singular).
qaloS.
> We will defeat you(plural).
rejey.
> I am disgraced.
jIweb.
> They torture you and the lieutenant.
SoH je Sogh joy'.
> A woman is reading a journal.
QonoS laD be'.
> Two men will be reading a label.
per lulaD cha' loD.
> I am the man of the eggs.
loD QIm jIH.
> The pipyus was Paul.
I don't know how to write past tense 'to be' in klingon.
> Drop your(singular) weapons!
nuHlIj Dachagh.
> Yesterday, my troubles were apparently remote.
wa'Hu' jIH Sengmey Hoplaw'.
> The animal's nose is very long.
tIq Ha'DIbaH ghIchqu'.
> We can go to the sea.
bIQ wIjaHlaH.
> I saw the star swallow the planet.
yuQ ghuppu' Hov 'e' vIlegh.
> We need to sit at the edge of the sea.
bIQ HeHDaq wIba'nIS.
> I am sad because the water is dirty.
lam bIQ 'e' vI'IQmo'. (I'm not quite sure of SAO construction yet)
> If our society doesn't care about the water then we are stupid.
SaHbe'chugh nughmaj vaj maQIp.
> The man who cannot see touched the large animal.
leghlaHbe'bogh loD Ha'DIbaH tIn Hotpu'.
> He says the animal resembles a rope.
tlhegh rur Ha'DIbaH 'e' jatlh ghaH.
> Hope for the best, but expect the worst.
Doch QaQ law' Hoch QaQ puS yItulbogh 'ach Doch qab law' Hoch qab puS yIpIHbogh.
I've probably messed this up quite spectacularly :-)
> A sharp mind is better than a sharp sword.
yab jej QaQ law' 'etlh jej QaQ puS.
>
Some of these prompted me to ask something that TKD mentions but doesn't
clarify. How do you differentiate between tenses? In particular the notion
of a future tense. For example {rejey} above could also mean 'we are
defeating you'. I could have used the adverb {tugh} in addition, but the
meaning will have deviatede from the one you requested.
Qov QIn vIloS..
--
Matt Peperell <[email protected]>
"Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, be satisfied with the mediocre"