tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 04 09:33:58 1999
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Re: Sovchu'wI' (a wise man)
- From: "Eduardo Fonseca" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Sovchu'wI' (a wise man)
- Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:31:59 -0200
>> >>> QapmeH Sovbe'lu'bogh laHmajmey wIDubnIS."
>> > You got the idea. The last paragraph I would mean:
>> >"In order to succeed, we had to develop our undiscovered abilities"
>> I would have used [ tu' ] - "discover" instead of [ Sov ].
>> mataHmeH laHmeymaj tu'lu'pu'be'bogh wIDubnIS
>
>And, of course, if you wanted to avoid a common grammatical
>error, you would have said:
>
>mataHmeH laHmeymaj lutu'lu'pu'be'bogh wIDubnISta'.
> ^^
>The {-ta'} was just a bonus.
>
>> In this context I also like the [ taH ]
All the words work well in context (Sov, tu, and so on). Pehaps {So'}
could be used also: mataHmeH laHmeymaj So'lu'pu'bogh wIDubnISta'
(keep the -ta' bonus) :-) "Our hidden abilities".
Edy