tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 27 23:42:18 2001
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RE: QAO (was: I had an idea, I don't know how...)
- From: "Will Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: QAO (was: I had an idea, I don't know how...)
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:37:55 -0500
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- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Trimboli [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 5:40 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: QAO (was: I had an idea, I don't know how...)
>
...
> >Now, I could see the problem if the English sentences had
> different tenses,
> >but that's because you can't do that with sentence-as-object,
> either. "At
> >first, I thought he was wrong, but now I think he was right." How would
> >you
> >say that in Klingon?
SuStel's answer is fine, but I just thought of another that is even more
concise:
lugh 'e' vIHarchoH.
charghwI'
> Klingon doesn't have anything equivalent to "at first" that I'm
> aware of, so
> I'm going to add one extra bit of necessary (and made-up for this
> example)
> context.
>
> muj ghaH 'e' vIQub, ghu' vIqelpa'; 'a qar ghaH DaH 'e' vIQub.
>
> The "wrong" and "right" are not given tense, but they really
> don't need it,
> as whatever other context you have would tell you what was wrong
> or right.
> If I preceded that sentence with /wa'Hu' jatlh 'avwI' jej 'etlhlIj/, the
> time context has become clear.
>
> SuStel
> Stardate 1894.4
>
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