tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Mar 20 20:40:13 1999
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Re: KLBC: bItam.
On 20-Mar-99, Alan Anderson wrote:
> ja' maHvatlh:
>> QaQ'a' mu'tlheghvam?
> ghobe', muj mu'tlheghlIj.
> The prefix on {Qub} has to be {Da-} if you're talking to one person,
> or {bo-} if you're addressing a group of people.
bIlughbej. jIqawbe'pu'.
> You're still asking what sounds like a very odd question, without a
> good indication of what kind of answer you want. The English phrases
> "how do you like it" and "what do you think" are almost idiomatic in
> nature; most people understand them as asking for a specific sort of
> information. I don't think that concept translates directly into a
> Klingon sentence.
> Are you looking for corrections? Suggestions? Praise or condemnation?
Nah, I want to know *how* my audience likes my poem. - Are there any special
part or feature they like best. Do they like the setting of it etc. - Pretty
much the same way I'd ask for feedback about anything I've made (food, new
furniture, a short story etc). What did they like especially about it?
> Maybe you could get the kind of response you're looking for if you said
> {yIpojneS} "Do me the honor of analyzing it."
HISlaH! De' Dajangpu', vIneHbej. jIyon.
>>>> yIjatlh! SoHvaD vIjatlh...
>>>> yIjatlh! vIjatlh...
>>>> yIjatlh! vItlhup...
>> Since you are not saying something specific, the prefixes should
>> probably be <jI-> rather than <vI->. Other than that, this is good.
>> I'm saying <<yIjatlh!>>, isn't that specific?
> No, that's a quote. If you speak a story or an address, then the verb
> {jatlh} has an object. If you are just quoting what was said, a quote
> is not the object of the verb of saying.
> yIjatlh! jIjatlh. "I said, speak!"
jIyaj. jISovbe'pu'. DaH Sov vIghaj.
> -- ghunchu'wI'
/maHvatlh
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