tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 26 09:17:44 2000
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RE: Caribbean-Klingon tale
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicolau Rodrigues [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, December 25, 2000 10:38 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Caribbean-Klingon tale
>
>
> Here you have a short tale of a Caribbean dialect from Venezuela,
> I've taken it from the book "Estudios de Tipología Lingüística"
> (Tovar, Ed.Istmo, Madrid, 1997), and I've translated it into
> Klingon because of the second sentence, where the main characters
> fight... butting their heads!
>
> paghmo' ghoHchuq cha' loDHom
>
> 1- yIttaHDI' cha' loDHom, wa' naH lutu'.
Note that {-taHDI'} is almost always better stated as {taHvIS}. The {-DI'}
suffix more typically functions as a sort of event trigger. It points to a
specific moment that begins when this verb goes into action. chotIchDI'
qaqIp. That sort of thing. It rarely works with {-taH}. Meanwhile, {-vIS}
REQUIRES {-taH}. It simply indicates that the action tagged with {-taHvIS}
was occurring (with no reference to beginning or ending the action) while
the action of the main verb occurred. I think this fits your meaning better.
The event here is {tu'}, not {yIt}. The latter was a process that was
ongoing at the moment of the event.
> 2- ghungmo' SuvchoH loDHompu', 'ej pe'vIl paw'.
> 3- ngugh ghu' tu' vay', 'ej <<mevyap!>> ja'.
nuqDaq mu'vam Datu'? <<mevyap>> vIngu'be'. loQ vIyaj, 'ach mu' tetlhwIjDaq
vISamlaHbe'.
> 4- HochvaD naH wav ghaH 'e' jang chaH.
lujang. Hmmm. jIyajchu'be'. They answered that he divide the vegetable for
everybody. ?
But who asked? Why answer when nobody asked? Are they making a request?
> 5- naH poSmoH ghaH, 'ej chIm naH ghIq 'e' lutob.
He opened the vegetable, and then THEY proved that it was empty? Huj.
> --ghaHbe'wI'
>
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