tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat May 05 16:28:43 2001
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RE: KLBC- An insult to my enemies
- From: "Stauffer, Tad E (staufte7)" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC- An insult to my enemies
- Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 19:29:12 -0400
Koraxis said:
> puchwIj jaghpu'wIj molmey
>
> A friend and I were trying to translate "The graves of my enemies are my
> urinal"...Did we get it right?
>
Almost. When saying that one noun is another noun, Klingon uses a format
that is described on page 68 of TKD. For example, the phrase "The X is a Y"
could be translated as {Y 'oH X'e'}. Here, X and Y are the nouns that you
are comparing.
Note that {'oH} ("it") is only used if the thing is a single non-speaking
noun. If you're talking about a single *person*, then you would use the
pronoun {ghaH} ("he, she") instead of {'oH}. Similarly, if you are talking
about more than one thing, you would change this to {bIH} ("they", used for
non-speaking things) or {chaH} ("they", used for people).
Also, since your enemies could speak (at least while they were alive), you
want to use the noun suffix {-wI'} instead of {-wIj}. When you want to say
"my", use {-wI'} when you're talking about people such as {jaghpu'wI'}, and
{-wIj} when you're talking about non-speaking things such as {puchwIj}. The
difference between these noun suffixes is explained further on p. 25 of TKD.
So you would want to say:
{puchwIj bIH jaghpu'wI' molmey'e'} "The graves of my enemies are my toilet."
- taD
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