tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 09 14:07:03 2003
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Re: correct?
naHQun wrote:
>Alright, I need to know if this is grammatically correct.
I'll respond since naHQun didn't flag this "KLBC".
>be'nalwI' yIHotQo' jay'!
>Do not *@#! touch my wife!
maj.
>bImoH DenIbya' Qotlh; rur.
>You are ugly, resembling a Denebian slime devil.
Watch your punctuation and prefixes:
bImoH; DenIbya' Qotlh Darur.
"You are ugly; you resemble a Denebian slime devil."
or more colloquially: "You're as ugly as a Denebian slime devil."
>qamuSqu' jay'!
>I *@#! HATE you!
maj.
>yIqalmoHQo', nIt.
>She is pure, do not corrupt her!
maj - although you reversed the clauses.
>jImut. be'nalwI'na' ghaH.
>I am selfish. She is MY wife.
SPECULATION ALERT...
At first I was going to suggest:
be'nalwI''e' ghaH.
She is MY WIFE.
but now that I think of it, naHQun may have given us a tool to translate
"my own" - vs. just "my, mine" - which we haven't really bean able to
do. E.g.:
be'nalwI'na' ghaH.
She is definitely MY wife (and not someone else's)
be'nalna'wI' ghaH.
She is my definite WIFE (main wife; or, not my {jup} or my {parmaqqay})
The only thing that may not work is the sequence of suffixes rule. {-na'}
"definite, definitely, true, no doubt, real" is a Type-3 noun suffix, but
what class are possessive suffixes? I don't have anything listed in my
notes; does that mean they're Rovers?
The only example I know of with both {-na'} and any possessive suffix on a
noun is {jupna'wI'} "my good friend" (KGT 202).
>yIngaghQo' nID!
>Do not attempt to mate with her.
This requires a sentence-as-object (SAO):
Dangagh 'e' yInIDQo'!
"You mate with her. Do not attempt that!"
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons