tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 22 08:38:46 1999
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RE: KLBC: DaH jIjeSqa'!
- From: Burt Clawson <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: DaH jIjeSqa'!
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 09:32:33 -0700
ja' pagh:
> > tuv'el jIH je jIcheghbejta'.
>
> For a moment, I thought you had really screwed up this sentence, with
> order
> problems and prefix problems and I don't know what all. Then I realized
> you
> just used the wrong conjunction form: the <je> should be <'ej>. It all
> makes
> sense after that.
>
wa'DIch jIQagh. "I err for the first time."
> > tlhIngan Hol vIlIjba' 'ach vIghojqa'.
>
> DalIjba'be'. DalIjchugh vaj ngoDvam DaSo'meH bIpo'bej.
>
translation: It isn't obvious you forgot it. If you forgot it, you
are certainly an expert at hiding the fact.
chaq vIqaw'laH. (How would I express the idea, 'Perhaps I remember
more than I thought I could?' I ground to a halt on that one!)
> > Holtej much 'Iv?
>
> nuqjatlh? ghotna' ghaH Holtej'e', 'ej muchlu' 'e' poQbe' ghaH.
>
translation: Huh? Holtej is most definitely a person, and doesn't
require presentation.
(I have Holtej listed in my on-line dictionary as 'linguist' or
'grammarian'. I must have translated his name and entered it. Oops!)
- tuv'el