tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 15 12:53:20 2000
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Re: translation comments
- From: Marc Ruehlaender <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: translation comments
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 14:53:03 CDT
jatlh De'vID:
> How does /Hov'a'maj bavtaHvIS tera' Quv'e'/ parse?
>
> If I read it as /{Hov'a'maj bavtaHvIS tera'} Quv'e'/,
> the part in {brackets} is a sentence, so what function
> is /Quv/ serving relative to it? If I read it as
> /Hov'a'maj bavtaHvIS {tera' Quv'e'}/, well, it's not
> the coordinates that are orbiting our sun, it's the
> Earth that's orbiting the Sun, and you are talking
> about the Earth's coordinates. So (it seems to me)
> not quite right either.
>
exactly! that's what my point was too. just couldn't
express it well enough.
Marc Ruehlaender
aka HomDoq
[email protected]