tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 22 08:26:23 2000
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RE: Daj (2)
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Daj (2)
- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 08:23:39 -0700
lab De'vID
> De'vID:
> > > HIvqa' veqlargh! cha' nuHIvchu'pu' veqlargh. I misread
> > > your "sergeant in a helmet" for "sergeant wearing a
> > > helmet". Now I see that that would be an English-ism.
>
> Will Martin:
> > not Qaghvam chenmoH tlhIngan Hol. puj DIvI' Hol.
>
> Hmmm... Does one /chenmoH/ "make" a mistake in Klingon, or
> would that be an English-ism as well? {{=)
Does a mis-writer of Klingon cause an error to take form? That's what
chenmoH means. Maybe he ratlhmoH the error, causes it to remain. There
may be a particular verb that a Klingon would be more likely to select.
There may be an idiom that we cannot guess. Non-idiomatically, though,
causing the error to take form is pretty much what we do.
Qov