tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Oct 12 23:49:24 2001
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Re: wa' Qebna'
Alan:
> ja' Jiri Baum <[email protected]>:
> >> chal bIngDaq wej Qebmey ghaj 'elvanpu'
> >...
> >Thanks - that sounds much better than my beginner's attempt...
> jItlhIjnIS. taghwI' vIgho' 'e' vIHechbe'. 'ach bom qon 'e' nIDDI'
> taghwI', Qatlhmo' Qu'Daj, pIj QapHa', 'ej jIberghchoH.
> I didn't mean to trample your attempt. It's just that poetry is a lot
> harder than a typical beginner thinks, and I cringe when a poem
> translation is chosen as a "learning" experience.
No worries - I knew translating chonuQbe'. Qatlh bom mughghach 'e'
poetry is hard, and I didn't even vISovpu', 'ej bom vIchenmoH 'e'
try to make it rhyme - though I did vIbIDbe' (loQ tIqghach vItogh).
syllable-count somewhat. (How do "adasismo" 'oS nuq? Esperanto mu'
you say "adasismo" in Klingon? 'oH. mojaqmey rap lo' bomwI' 'e'
That's what Esperanto calls the Hech. <<-ad>> (-taH) <<-as>> (DaH,
kind of poetry which rhymes by wot mojaq 'ut) je bIH mungDaj'e'.
using the same suffixes, from -ad
(-taH), -as (DaH, which is a
compulsory verb suffix in
Esperanto)).
About its only redeeming feature is 'ach puS bom mu'. bom tInlaw' law,
that it has few words per wej mu'tlhegh tInlaw' puS
meaningful unit; if I translated
three sentences of prose, it would
seem much less.
Jiri
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