tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 30 11:05:04 1999
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KLBC: Is this correct?
- From: Scott Pakin <pakin@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: KLBC: Is this correct?
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 13:05:01 -0500 (CDT)
First, let me say I'm a *complete* beginner to the language and to this
mailing list (both ~1 day), so please excuse any breaches of etiquette I'm
about to make.
I thought it would be fun to use some pIqaD in a presentation I'm giving on
my thesis research. The topic is "collective communication," as in,
"communication performed by a collective (of computers)." According to
Michael Rudolph's English-tlhIngan/thlIngan-English Dictionary (which I ran
across online), "collect" is translated as <boS> and "communicate" as
<Qum>. So would "collective communication" therefore be translated into
<QumwI' boS>? Or would that be "collecting communicator" or somesuch?
I didn't see an affix in the list in the back of the mu'ghom that looked
like it would convert "communicate" into "communication;" <-wI'> just
seemed the closest. Similarly, it appears like verbs can be used as
adjectives without any modifications. Can they?
Thanks in advance for your help (and patience!),
-- Scott