tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 18 21:05:17 2002
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Re: KLBC: Complex Sentences
- From: "Lee Herndon" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Complex Sentences
- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 21:07:36 -0600
ghItlh Quvar:
>>qantaH ghojmoHwI' 'e' muqawmoHmeH qanta' tlheta'.
>>To remind me that the teacher was old, Kleta pointed her little finger.
>That's nice.
Is this an ironical statement? This visual metaphor was something I found
in the New Words list.
>Although I think it makes no sense to say {qantaH}.
And I don't remember why I used that suffix, only that I had a reason. :)
>Besides, we have a problem with transitive verbs with -moH. Here,
>{muqawmoH} shows that "s/he" reminds "you". Now we have both object >and
>subject, so the verb {qaw} cannot be used with {'e'} anymore.
va!
>>jIpIv yIja', pagh loDHom vIHoH.
>>Say you're well or I'll kill the boy.
>This looks like a very literal translation, not nice, but correct.
> >Partially, I think it's not good to combine a command with a statement
> >like this, although in english it sounds okay.
>In Klingon, we would say it in the pattern on {bIjeghbe'chugh vaj >bIHegh}
>"If you do not surrender, then you die." or, "Surrender OR >die!"
>{bIpIv 'e' DachIDbe'chugh vaj loDHom vIHoH}
>"if you don't admit that you're healthy, then I kill the boy"
>also: "Admit that you're healthy, OR I kill the boy"
Any of these would have worked better, and I never even thought about it,
because I was looking solely for a reason to use 'e'. I'll try to think
smarter next time.
>>pIj DIvI' 'ejyo'waw'meyDaq qagh HoH net tu'.
>>One often finds that they kill gagh on Federation Starbases.
>majQa'!
I've seen this several times and I'm becoming somewhat puzzled. Is *Qa'* an
element I don't have in TKD? I think what you're saying is "very good", but
the only listing I have for *Qa'* is as a noun meaning "type of animal".
*qa'* means "do again, resume"; perhaps you mean "Right again!"
Or do you mean to use *qu'*--"Very good!"
Or is *Qa'* just something I don't have?
maQ
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