tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Mar 05 17:53:28 1999

Back to archive top level

To this year's listing



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

RE: KLBC: They Might Be Giants (KLBC)



jatlh quljIb:

> Okay, so with the corrections that would be:

>	ben (law') *Constantinopol* ponglu'pu' *Istanbul* 'ach
>	DaH *Istanbul* ponglu' 'ej pongbe'lu' *Constantinopol*
>	bang Daghajchugh 'ej *Constantinopol*Daq ghaH
>	DaH *Isatanbul*Daq loStaH ghaH.

> Do I have that right?

Well, it looks like you missed a few corrections. In the first line, remove
the <-pu'>. In the second line, *Constantinopol* has to go *before* the verb
<pongbe'lu'>.

Also in the first line, the *Istanbul* is out of place. The way the verb
<pong> works is the name is the object of the verb, and the thing named is
put in front of it with the suffix <-vaD>. So you wind up with:

ben law' *Istanbul*vaD *Constantinopol* ponglu', ach ...


pagh
Beginners' Grammarian



Back to archive top level