tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 05 11:28:22 2000
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RE: A little expression translated. (KLBC)
- From: Eric Andeen <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: A little expression translated. (KLBC)
- Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 11:28:03 -0700
jatlh Paul:
>>> I was thinking about the expression 'What
>>> does not kill me, makes me stronger.' and
>>> thought it may be suitable for Klingons so I
>>> decided to try to translate it.
>>>
>>> My first try was {muHoSmoH muHoHbe'chugh},
>>> "If it does not kill me, it makes me
>>> stronger".
>>
>> maj.
> Thanks. I'll keep this one I think. I was
> thinking though, how much difference is
> there between {muHoSmoH} 'cause me to be
> strong' and {muHoSchoH} 'change me to be
> strong' (both assuming there is more sentence
> as in my different attempts in the original
> post).
Careful - without the <-moH>, there's nothing "causing" anything.
<muHoSchoH> doesn't mean anything, since <HoS> is not a verb that can take
an object. You could say <muHoSchoHmoH>, I suppose - "It causes me to become
strong", but I don't think that's any better. That implies a change in state
- you weren't strong before, but you are now.
> Is it just a matter of what the type of
> sentence demands or is there a qualitative
> difference? How close is this to 'make me
> stronger'? In particular, is there even a way
> to say that I'm becomming *stronger* as
> opposed to just strong?
I just don't think it makes a difference.
>> KLBC Dalo'mo' quSDaq bIba' :) Look in KGT at the
>> idioms section if you don't understand this.
> You think I marked it KLBC because it was
> such a simple thing to translate, right?
> Well, not for me. I'm not especially
> good at tlhIngan Hol but I try to learn. I
> didn't want to embarrass myself by making a
> beginners misstake in an non-KLBC post. As it
> turns out I didn't but I couldn't know that.
My comment was in response to your comment "Corrections and suggestions are
welcome.". Since you used a KLBC, you obviously invited corrections and
suggestions, at least from me.
pagh
Beginners' Grammarian