tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 27 16:06:50 1998
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Re: KLBC: qoSwIj wa'maH HutDIch
- From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: qoSwIj wa'maH HutDIch
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:10:14 -0700 (PDT)
---Matthew Peperell wrote:
>
> wa'Hu qaS qoSwIj wa'maH HutDIch.
maj.
> DaHram 'oH wIlop.
> We are celebrating it tonight.
The symmetry of English today/tonight doesn't work in Klingon. Say
/DaHjaj ram/. As /jaj/ is an entire 24 h period, you can refer to
/DaHjaj pem/(*) or /DaHjaj ram/ without redundancy or contradiction.
> muiSuch juppu'wI' 'e' vItlhobta'.
You've had your typo corrected, but you must also avoid the type-7
after /'e'/. /'e' vItlhob/.
>DIvutta' 'e' nay'mey DISop.
Grin. It DOES sound like you're going to cook your friends. When
translating, watch what happens to your antecedents.
> We will eat dishes that we have cooked ourselves.
Divide this into two sentences to translate it. "we will eat [them]"
you have just fine, with /DISop/. Now you need "dishes that we have
cooked ourselves." To do this, say "we have cooked the dishes
ourselves" and then place /-bogh/ on the verb. That's how /-bogh/
works.
/nay'mey DIvutta'/ - "we have prepared dishes"
/nay'mey DIvutta' maH/ - "we have prepared dishes ourselves" (the
/maH/ emphasizes "us")
/nay'mey'e' DIvutta'bogh maH/ - "dishes we have cooked ourselves"
(the /-'e'/ on nay'mey is unnecessary, but prevents anyone from
interpreting it as "we who have prepared the dishes."
So all together: /nay'mey'e' DIvutta'bogh maH DISop/
"We will eat dishes which we will have prepared ourselves."
> Do' wa'leS jI'uHbe'
> With luck I won't be hungover tommorrow (morning).
That comes out as "Luckily, I won't be hungover tomorrow." You need
a conditional. Use /jIDo'chugh/ "if I am lucky."
> I know the offical BG's are absent due to the qep'a' so if anyone
sees > anything
> obviously incorrect, please inform me. Otherwise I'll just have to
be > patient.
> When does the qep'a' end?
It ended Sunday morning.
* Ask about /paSlogh bIngDaq/ if the qep'a' attendees forget to tell
the tale.
Qov DaSovbogh
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