tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 02 09:25:43 1998
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Re: KLBC: ram Hurgh
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: ram Hurgh
- Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 09:24:03 -0800
At 10:18 98-03-01 -0800, you wrote:
}ja' Qov:
}
}> At 14:04 98-02-27 -0800, HovqIj wrote:
}> }DaHjaj "be melancholy" jIH.
}
}Qov, *glasses*lIj DalIj'a'? muj jay' mu'tlheghvam. qar {DaHjaj jI*be
}melancholy*}.
I assumed the prefix and accepted the emphasis. English verbs don't take
prefixes. How can I strictly mark macaroni? You do have a correctly
self-referential sentence above, though: {muj mu'tlheghvetlh jay'} - jay'
goes at the end of the sentence.
}> }Hurgh Hur
}> }pagh legh mInwIj lur
}> }ram
}> }So' Hoch Hov
}>
}> So' is "hide" not "be hidden." Fine if you are, as poetry certainly permits
}> you to, saying that the stars have some volition in the matter. (My very
}> first KLBC turned into an argument about whether {So'} or {So''egh} was
}> correct here. Canon on page 69 says it's just fine).
}
}"hide" is exactly what I wanted. Each star hides. The moonlight is
}absent. They keep away. They don't want to be there. It is not just by
}any coincidence that you can't see them.
wanI'vetlh vIpIHpu' 'ach DIch SuqmeH vIQIj je.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian