tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 13 08:42:36 1998
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RE: KLBC: adverbial practice
- From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: adverbial practice
- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 08:41:29 -0700 (PDT)
---Quvar muHwI' <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ghItlh pagh:
>
> >> jen
> >jen nuq? I don't know what you mean here.
> It's a joke. Forget the meaning as a verb, but see the translation
as an
> adjective:
> high --> HI! :-)
You'd like Lawrence's puns. ghunchu'wI' and I spent fifteen minutes
trying to explain to him why a pun that was understandable only to
those who translate before looking for meaning wasn't funny to us.
> >Again, sentences with <neH> don't use <'e'>, and <Hech> might be
better.
> jIQongtaHlaw'
bIQongba'. You put a V6 after a V7.
> >You need the <'e'> in the second sentence: <'ach SIS 'e' vIHar>.
Also,
> jIQongtaHbej.
And again.
==
Qov - Beginners' Grammarian
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