tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 29 22:23:26 2000
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RE: KLBC some practice sentences
: jatlh J:
: > ramvam wISay'moH bIvumbogh Qulpa'.
: > Tonight we will clean the lab where you work.
:
: <Qulpa'> is good for lab [...]
Indeed; Okrand used it in the Bird of Prey Poster:
{De'wI' Qulpa'} "computer research lab" (BoPP)
: > jav 'uj juch chob'a'.
: > The main corridor is six uj wide.
:
: I'm not sure <chob'a'> works for "main corridor", especially if it's only
: six udges wide. To add <-'a'>, the noun has to be "bigger, more important,
: or more powerful" than the regular noun, and I don't know if just being
: designated the "main" corridor is enough of a distinction for this. I've
I don't see the problem (aside from the measurements). The main corridor
is indeed "more important" than the others. In a Bird of Prey this is the
corridor running up the tubular neck to the command pod from the
engineering, crew and cargo areas. In other long, narrow ship designs the
{chob'a'} would probably refer to a central corridor from which other,
smaller passageways branch off - like ribs off the spine.
: often wished for a word meaning "main" or "primary" or something like that,
: but we don't have one.
Yes we do; it's {-'a'} "more important, more powerful":
{chob'a'} "main corridor" (BoPP)
{De'wI' SoSbor'a'} "main computer core" (BoPP)
{jIH'a'} "main viewscreen/viewer" (SP3)
Most people do however tend to focus on the "bigger" meaning of {-'a'},
forgetting its other connotations.
BTW, "prime, primary" can sometimes be translated by {wa'DIch}: e.g.
Cardassia Prime *{qarDaS wa'DIch}, the Prime Directive *{chut wa'DIch}.
: pagh
: Beginners' Grammarian
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Voragh
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