tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 29 07:22:49 2001
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Re: Patience makes perfect
> >mu'mey vISov 'e' puS.
>
> The word 'e' makes the "sentence-as-object" construction. Whatever you
put
> before the 'e' has to be the direct object of the verb you put after it.
> The verb /puS/ means "be few" or "sight (with gunsight)". So /mu'mey
vISov
> 'e' puS/ means either "He draws a bead that I know the words" or "He fews
> that I know the words," neither of which makes any sense.
>
> I think you intended to say "I know a few of the words" or maybe "I know
> few words."
>
> mu'mey puS (See TKD 4.4) = "few words"
>
> Try:
> mu'mey puS vISov - I know few words.
> mu'meyvetlh puS vISov - I know a few of those words.
> Qov
toH! qatlho'.
tlhIngan Hol vIQatlhmoH, 'ach tlhIngan Hol nap.
(I make Klingon language complicated, but Klingon language is simple.)
pagh-le'