tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Feb 07 12:34:29 1999

Back to archive top level

To this year's listing



[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]

RE: KLBC: Two things...



ja' Voragh:
>where {ghojwI'} "student" is IMHO a bit less clumsy than keeping {ghoj} a verb:
>
>	tlhIngan Hol yejHaD muvnIS tlhIngan Hol ghojbogh Hoch nuv 'e' vIHarbej
>	I do believe that every person who studies Klingon should join the Klingon
>	 Language Institute.
>
>although the latter is certainly better if I wanted to add yet another noun to the subject string:
>
>	tlhIngan Hol yejHaD muvnIS tlhIngan Hol ghojbogh Hoch tera'ngan nuv 'e' vIHarbej
>
>for "every Terran student of Klingon", although now {nuv} is redundant and can be safely omitted.  Which just goes to show that there's always more than one way to express an idea if you just give it some thought.  

{nuv} is already redundant in the first phrase.  I think {Hoch} "everybody"
works just fine without it.

-- ghunchu'wI'




Back to archive top level