tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 15 10:29:18 2000
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Re: [KLBC] [The Raven] Part 12
Tremal-Naik rote:
: Then the bird said "Nevermore".
:
: "not law'" jatlh toQ.
Carful: {not} "never (before)" is an adverbial, not a noun and AFAIK can't be
modified by the quality {law'}. If you want to keep the syllable, you could
say {jatlhlaw' toQ} "the raven seems to say". If OTOH you wanted an emphatic
form of "never", we have a new word from Klingon for the Galactic Traveller,
{paghlogh}:
"When {-logh} is attached to {pagh} (zero), the resulting form,
{paghlogh} (zero times) is used as an emphatic alternate for
{not} (never), as in {paghlogh jegh tlhIngan SuvwI'} (a Klingon
warrior surrenders zero times)... compare {not jegh tlhIngan
SuvwI'} (a Klingon warrior never surrenders)." [p.178]
Thus:
«paghlogh» jatlh toQ.
And the line still has four syllables!
BTW, most of us tend to avoid using double quotation marks (") when writing
tlhIngan Hol, since they're readily confused with the consonantal apostrophe
(').
Qapla'!
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons