Re: [KLBC] A poem

[devid@startrekmail.com]

> 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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