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RE: KLBC- An insult to my enemies



I'd just like to suggest that while it doesn't exactly mirror the English
original sentence, the verb {moj} might be more interesting than a pronoun
for this example. puchwIj lumoj jaghwI' mol.

charghwI' 'utlh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stauffer, Tad E (staufte7) [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 7:29 PM
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: RE: KLBC- An insult to my enemies
>
>
>
> 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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