tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jun 01 18:53:55 2000
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RE: chay Doch Do maghmeH tlhIngan Hol lo'lu'?
- From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: chay Doch Do maghmeH tlhIngan Hol lo'lu'?
- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 20:45:26 -0500
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
- References: <l03020902b55a4e6ba556@[206.150.220.84]>
ja' charghwI':
>Meanwhile, I don't think we've seen units of measure used with nouns like
>either of these examples give it.
bIlughchu'.
vaj cha' Doch vISov vIneH: chay' <DoS> vItogh?
'ej chay' HIq vImuqmoHmeH tlho'ren vIlo'?
>HIq vIje' vIneH. wej tlho'ren HInob.
Qap, 'ach jIyonbe'.
>We don't talk about three miles of road. We talk about going down the road
>for three miles.
?? *I* talk about things like "three miles of road." I was just
describing to a co-worker "nine miles of gravel road" two days ago!
> Units of measure are not always attached to the things they
>measure. Each language arbitrarily makes these associations, and so far as I
>can remember, Klingon has not made the kind of association between
>substances and units of volume measure that peHruS was asking about. Until
>we see such an example, we're probably better off just handling the units of
>measure in a separate clause than the substance being measured.
jIQochbe'. Hol vISIH vIneHbe'.
>Besides, it is simply easy to do, and it sounds a lot like Okrand's style of
>phrasing. We are supposed to be modeling our expressions after his usage as
>much as after his descriptions, after all. Little related sentences packed
>next to one another with parallels implied really do sound and feel
>Okrandian, and so they probably look and feel Klingon.
maj. vIlajqang.
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh