tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Oct 09 08:40:26 2001
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Re: Help for someone new!
From: "Rohan Fenwick" <[email protected]>
> <<wen>> nIbbogh mu' 'oH "months ago"'e'.
> However, I could be wrong again... :)
/nIb/ means "be identical." Do you really think that can take an object?
That'd be like saying */Duj vIQuch/ "I am happy the ship."
I suppose you mean to say "identical to." In Klingon, you'd have to use a
plural subject, consisting of the things that are identical. For example,
/nIb beHwIj beHlIj je/ "My rifle is identical to yours."
I'm not sure of your ultimate meaning here. Perhaps you should try again.
> BTW, has anyone thought of the possibility that the suffix <<-'e'>> may be
> the modern last vestige of a nominative case in ancient Klingon? We know
> that it marks the subject in quasi-copular sentences; might this usage
have
> extended to all sentences? Or am I just trying too hard to expand the
> language in a dimension it's not intended to go?
I've always considered the "to be" formation to be an ad hoc one. The way I
imagine it, Klingon always had the "Me Tarzan" kind of sentence, but then
when Klingons wanted to identify one noun with another, they added a topic
to it.
nov ghaH.
He is an alien.
nov ghaH Human'e'.
He is an alien. The human! I'm talking about the human. He's an alien.
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