tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 22 16:42:36 1999
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Re: KLBC: summer's in, school's out
- From: "Nelson Lamoureux" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: summer's in, school's out
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 19:41:50 -0400
jatlh pagh
>> vaj jIQaghHa' ghojwI'Homvo'.
>
> Nouns with type five suffixes (except -'e') must go at the beginning of the
> clause they are part of, so <ghojwI'Homvo'> must go before <jIQaghHa'>.
>
> I'm also having trouble figuring out what you're saying here. I suspect you
> mean that you have gone from being a student to someone who does not often
> make mistakes. Let me know what you wanted to say, and I will help you say
> it.
I'm trying to say that (I'm a highschool teacher and) I'm finished
correcting the student's error.
I think it should have been something like:
vaj ghojwI'Homvo' jIQaghHa'.
I forgot about the OVS syntax.
>> tlhIngan Hol QaghwIj QaghHa' pagh!
>
> <Qagh> is defined as "err, be mistaken, make a mistake". I don't think
> <Qagh> can take an object - something like <mu'tlheghvam vIQagh> would not
> make sense - so <QaghHa'> probably cannot either. You can use another nice
> verb here - <lughmoH>.
>
> If this is a simple statement - "pagh will correct my errors", then it is
> fine with <lughmoH>, and correct as well: DaH QaghlIj vIlughmoHlI'bej. If it
> is a request (command), then you need an imperative prefix: <tlhIngan Hol
> QaghwIj tIlughmoH, pagh!>. (Unless you are assuming you have only one error,
> which would make the prefix <yI->).
I will explain the whole idea I was trying to get through. I'm a teacher and
since school is now finished I will let you, pagh, be the teacher and I will
do the mistakes that you will help me correct. The approximate translantion
I was trying to achieve was:
School is finished so I'm finished correcting the students errors. Now pagh
will correct my klingon errors.
I can see that I left a couple of things out. Lets try again.
rIn DuSaQ vaj ghojwI'Homvo' jIlughmoHbe'. DaH QaghwIj lughmoHlI'bej pagh.
ghojtaH 'e' Qatlhchu'.
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Nelson Lamoureux
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