tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 30 10:27:35 2001
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RE: A little Poetry
- From: Eric Andeen <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: A little Poetry
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 10:27:20 -0700
Patrick Masterson:
>> I had a sentence corrected a while ago by charghwI' in which he told me
>> noun suffixes in some sentences *are* best put on the pronoun, as in the
>> original corrected sentence:
>>
>> tlhIngan mu' ghaHHey <<loDnI'>>
>> The Klingon word for "brother" is apparently <<loDnI'>>
charghwI':
> Gee, I hope that's not how I "corrected" it.
>>> Here, the pronoun <<ghaH>> does take a suffix, the apparent
>>> <<-Hey>>, so it would seem correct that pronouns can take noun
>>> suffixes.
>> But in that sentence, ghaH is used as a verb - he/she is.
>> Wouldn't -law' be the proper suffix instead of -Hey?
> I agree completely. Add that to really straighten out the
> example given here:
> tlhIngan mu' ghaHlaw' <<loDnI'>>'e'.
> Don't forget the {-'e'}, unless you are working on a dialect...
And to straighten it out some more...
A word is not a being capable of using language. It might refer to one, but
the word itself is not. So <ghaH> is not appropriate, and <'oH> should be
used instead.
tlhIngan mu' 'oHlaw' <loDnI'>'e'
pagh