tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 17 05:03:44 1999
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Re: Klingon WOTD: baj (v)
- From: Carleton Copeland <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: baj (v)
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 11:22:55 +-300
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jIja':
>> *yIntaHghach* I could deal with, but *yInlu'taH*?!
>> Would charghwI' or any of the other sensei-pu' do a
>> *pab poj* on this one?
jang ~mark. ja':
> Seems pretty reasonable to me, and more verb-centric
> than {yIntaHghach} (or the simpler {yIn}, which is also
> a noun). Stop trying to translate the English, translate
> the Klingon:
> yInlu'taH : something continues to live
> 'e' bajnISlu' : something must earn that
It's the *-lu'* in *yInlu'taH* that's throwing me. I'm so used to thinking
of it as a sort of Klingon passive that it never occurred to me it would
work on an intransitive verb. Are there other canon examples? yay'lu'taH
'e' not mevlu' jay'!
qa'ral