tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 08 13:59:48 1998
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Re: tlhIngan maH (was KLBC)
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: tlhIngan maH (was KLBC)
- Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 16:59:45 -0400 (EDT)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "TPO" at May 7, 98 04:24:08 pm
According to TPO:
>
> >> When Kahless the Unforgettable,
> >> who united the Klingon Empire, was cloned years later, the replica retained
> >> the ancient Klingon attitudes.
> >
> >Oooooooo. Qatlh.
> >
> >tlhIngan wo' chenmoHmo' qeylIS'e' lIjlaHbe' vay'. Heghpu'qu'DI'
> >porghDaj chenqa'moHlu'DI', tlhIngan tIghmey tIQ qawchu'
> >qeylISqoqvam.
>
> hmm, that first sentence... Because Kahless created the Empire.
> Why is the -mo' on there?
> Or is it the [.] period that I should question?
Well, the period *I* see is after {vay'}. You apparently think
{lIjlaHbe'} has a {-bogh} on it, but it doesn't. It doesn't
say, "Because Kahless, the unforgetable, created the Empire."
It says, "Kahless is unforgetable because he created the
Empire." See?
I did it this way because trying to tie qeylIS to THREE clauses
was just a little too much. He created the Empire, one cannot
forget him and whatever the next sentence said. All these were
packed into one English sentence, so I split them out, as
Klingon nearly requires you to do.
> DloraH
charghwI'