tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Oct 16 23:53:39 2001
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Re: Help for someone new!
ja' "Rohan Fenwick" <[email protected]>:
>Further to the pronoun-as-verb construction: Is there an equivalent
>comparative structure to "I am more of a man than you are", or is this
>circumlocution material?
The *English* phrase is already rather circuitious. I'd say the
appropriate thing to do at this point is to identify the real thought,
express *that*, and forget about translating the "be a man" part entirely.
jIH yoH law' SoH yoH puS
-- ghunchu'wI'