tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 27 21:27:29 1999
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Re: NEW PLANETS FOUND!!!
ja' Ed <[email protected]>:
> Hovtay'majDaq muD ghaj *Titan*. maSmey ghajchugh yuQ tInqu',
> In our star system *Titan* possess an atmosphere. If a giant planet
>possess moons,
So far, so good...
>qItjaj maSmeyvetlh yIn luleH.
>Those moons may possibly maintain life.
...but it breaks down at the end.
The verb suffix {-jaj} indicates a wish that something happen in the future.
In English, the word "may" is sometimes used instead of "might"; that's the
kind of "may" you need here. You should probably use the Klingon adverbial
{chaq} "perhaps" instead of the verb {qIt} "be possible"; the grammar winds
up a lot easier that way.
The subject of the sentence is "those moons" and the object is "life"; your
word order needs to be turned around to be correct. I'm not sure if {leH}
"maintain" is an appropriate word here, but I can't say it's incorrect. So
the last part of your message would be more correctly said as:
chaq yIn luleH maSmeyvetlh.
DaH qajang:
HovDaq Sumqu' maSmeyvam tIn. pa' taHchugh yIn, ghaytan pImqu'.
-- ghunchu'wI'