tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Nov 28 10:23:12 1998
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KLBC Was: Re: prepositional phrases
- From: "Neal Schermerhorn" <[email protected]>
- Subject: KLBC Was: Re: prepositional phrases
- Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 13:23:51 -0500
ghItlh Avraham Chapman:
>>As a learning exercise, I've been translating Doctor Seuss' 'The Cat and
>>the Hat'. Unfortunately, he uses a lot of prepositional phrases and I
>>don't know how to do them. Specifically, I'm looking for 'in the NOUN'
>>where NOUN = any noun. I'm also looking for how to say, 'too much of
>><something>'.
'ej ghItlh Voragh:
>Your first example - "in the NOUN where NOUN" - is a variant of the
>infamous "ship in which I fled" problem, which has been frequently and
>inconclusively debated in this forum. You may have to split this into two
>sentences. There is no law which says that one sentence in English cannot
>become two (or more) sentences in Klingon, or vice versa.
I think you misread this, Voragh. "looking for 'in the NOUN' where NOUN =
any noun." "In the ship" is <DujDaq>. "In the leg" is <'uSDaq>. BUT - I
think pagh had better advise you on this, so I added a KLBC to the header.
But in the meantime, realize that no formula will work 100% of the time. In
the event one is found, I'll argue till I'm blue in the face (in the spirit
of good warrior-ship, of course). :o)
Qermaq