tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 06 07:43:50 2002
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Re: KLBC: Some Sentences of Varying Difficulty
From: "Lee Herndon" <[email protected]>
> This was a bit tough to translate...lots of syntactic markers and the
> infamous verb *pong*. Let's see if I've got it right.
majQa'! mu'tlheghmeywIj Damuchchu'ta'!
> >Duj ngu'lu'chu'pa' 'oHvaD chunDabHey ponglu'.
> It was called an apparent meteor before it was definitely identified as a
> ship.
>
> >Duj ngu'lu'chu'pu'DI' 'oHvaD chunDabqoq ponglu'.
> As soon as it had been definitely identified as a ship it was called a
> so-called meteor.
>
> >'ej yavaD taHqeq pong Hoch!
> And everyone calls your tactical officer a nasty name!
> (lughbej 'e'. jIHagh.)
Careful! /'e'/ can never be the subject of a sentence, only the object.
> (If *taHqeq* is more specific than that, I don't have the information.)
mu'vam wImughlaHbe'. Doch 'oSbogh <taHqeq> wIngu'laHbe'.
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