tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 21 08:32:23 2001
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Re: KLBC: jajwIj
> I can imagine a situation where you'd want to say that you call _yourself_
> something (but other people call you something else). Maybe if you're trying
> to change your name, but people haven't picked up on it yet. How would you
> express that? Perhaps {jIHvaD Sengval vIpong}? Or would that just
> sound strange?
This situation popped into my mind when I was writing that reply.
Would a klingon indirectly admit that he is weak in that HE calls himself one
name and everyone else calls him something else? So I don't think we would see
this in first-person.
jatlh ghaH <DunwI' 'oH pongwIj'e'>, 'ach ghaHvaD qoH pong Hoch.
"He says his name is DunwI', but everyone calls him Fool."
This works in second-person also. I suppose you could do it first-person too
but like I said, would a klingon admit to such a situation?
> So, if I wanted to tell my age (something I was thinking about
> today), I would say {qaStaHvIS wa'maH Hut DIS jIyIn} "I'm nineteen years
> old", going against the English example "I have lived nineteen years",
> which does include a completed aspect.
Your sentence is grammatically correct...
bogh - born
wejmaH wej ben jIbogh - 33 years ago I was born.
wejmaH wej ben jIboghpu' - 33 years ago I had been born. I could have been
born 33 years and 1 day ago, or 33 years and 100 days ago, I don't say. I only
say that 33 years ago that act of being born was already completed. So,
females going into their 30's could say cha'maH wa' ben jIboghpu'.
I suppose if you think you were part of some great prophecy you could use the
suffix -ta', making the action intentional.
DloraH, BG