tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 26 13:52:43 2003
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Dumb Question -- Emphasis
- From: "...Paul" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Dumb Question -- Emphasis
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:50:45 -0700 (PDT)
Okay, two dumb questions... How do I say "Dumb Question", and then my
main question, how would I emphasize, I guess, pronouns?
Case in point, here at work, someone said, "Thanks" and I turned around
and said, "No, thank *YOU*". How would I convey that in Klingon?
Admittedly this is a little silly, it's a question of verbal emphasis.
But I think there can be some syntactical sugar there...
qatlho' "I thank you"
SoH qatlho' "I thank *you*" ?
SoH'e' qatlho' "I thank YOU!" ?
Is that last one even legit?
jatlh tlhIngan wa', "qatlho'"
jatlh tlhIngan cha', "ghobe', SoH'e' qatlho'!"
??
On a semi-related note, how would one produce emphasis in text? In
English, we tend to do things like capitalize WHAT we want to emphasize,
or maybe we put *asterisks* around it... The former isn't a good idea
for tlhIngan Hol, since capitalization is somewhat important. The latter
is possible, I suppose, but I think an asterisk normally indicates
"wrong" or "questionable" bits, which isn't what we want.
qoj QoghIjwIj mIQlu'pu'...
Or maybe my brain is just fried...
...Paul
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