tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jun 04 20:37:19 2000
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Re: [KLBC] A poem
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- Subject: Re: [KLBC] A poem
- Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 23:37:02 -0400 (EDT)
> De'vID:
> >"May you encounter Kahless in your dreams."
> >/bInajtaHvIS qeylIS Daghomjaj./
Doq tera' loD:
> You wouldnt belive how that helped me De'vID. I Broke that down,
> and I think that I finnaly understand how this whole object,
> verb, subject thing works.
>
> So now I have:
>
> /jInajta SoHtlhob jiDichDaqvaj./
> I hope this is "Then I will ask you in a dream".
Not quite. Here's a hint:
/bInajtaHvIS.../
"While you dream..." (i.e. "In your dreams")
bI- =
naj =
-taH =
-vIS =
What do you mean by "I will ask you in a dream"? Do you
mean "I will ask you while *I* am dreaming", or
"I will ask you while *you* are dreaming"? They mean
slightly different things.
Also, /tlhob/ is "ask" in the sense of "request", i.e.
"asking someone to close the door". The word for "ask"
that you want is either /ghel/ "ask (a question)" or
/yu'/ "interrogate".
And finally, I can't make heads or tails of /jIDIchDaqvaj/.
/vaj/ seems to be "then", which should go at the beginning
of the sentence as a separate word.
With any translation there is any number of ways to do it,
but I think you are aiming for something of this form:
/vaj/ + {something like /bInajtaHvIS/} + {something with /ghel/ or /yu'/}
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De'vID
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