tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 20 07:50:03 1998
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Re: RE: Coffee is ready
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: RE: Coffee is ready
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 10:49:59 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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This is merely a suggestion for another way to say, "It is
ready," referring to coffee:
tlhutlhbeHlu'.
If this prompts discussion, fine.
charghwI'
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998 12:53:09 -0700 (PDT) Robyn Stewart
<[email protected]> wrote:
> ---Wendy Fillmore <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > If the coffee is finished perking, you might try "it has been
> prepared."
> > >
> > > -- ghunchu'wI'
> >
> > I've been lurking for quite some time now, so this is my first post.
> >
> > How would you say "It has been prepared." or "The coffee has been >
> prepared."
>
> Welcome qalara. You've chosen a knotty question to delurk on. You
> see, in Klingon you can't just say that something is "ready," you have
> to say what it is ready to do. Saying that something is ready to have
> something done to it needs some rewording. That's why we're going
> around it with "has been prepared."
>
> "prepare" referring to food is /vut/. The subject is indeterminate,
> that is, you're not mentioning who prepared it, merely that it has
> been prepared. So you use the /-lu'/ verb suffix. And the point of
> the sentence is that the preparation of the coffee is complete, so you
> use the perfective. The deliberateness of the preparation of the
> coffee doesn't seem relevant here, so I'd use /-pu'/. All together,
> using OVS sentence order, you get:
>
> qa'vIn vutlu'pu'
> ==
> Qov - Beginners' Grammarian