tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 15 11:00:30 1998
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RE: List of Klingon fauna
- From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: List of Klingon fauna
- Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 10:49:35 -0700
ghunchu'wI' jabbI'ID lughmoH charghwI':
>> pa' luDabqu'be'.
>This one is sneaky in its weirdness. If you meant, "They do not
>very much dwell in a room," then this is correct. Meanwhile, if
>{pa'} is supposed to be "thereabouts", then it is an adverb
>(chuvmey} and not a noun, so it can't be the direct object of
>{Dab}. I'd either repeat {chal}, or omit it altogether. Using
>{pa'} as some sort of locative pronoun replacing {chal} may make
>sense in English, but it doesn't work in Klingon by any grammar
>we've been shown yet.
Both definitions of <pa'> are nouns. <pa'> - "there, over there,
thereabouts (n)" (TKD).
pagh