tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 11 12:20:14 2003
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Re: lugh'a' mughghachvam?
- From: "d'Armond Speers" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: lugh'a' mughghachvam?
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:13:42 -0600
>From: Janna Roslöf <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: lugh'a' mughghachvam?
>Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 19:55:47 +0300
>
>jIjatlh:
> > "be pleased" {bel} + {-moH} = "please" {belmoH}
> > and it looks like you've also figured out there's a rule saying
> > "be V-d" + {-moH} = "V".
>
>jatlh Holtej:
> > Not necessarily. This is what I was trying to express in my earlier
> > message. For some words in English there is a "V" form for the "be V-d"
>+
> > {-moH} case. So, "be pleased" + {-moH} = "please". But not always.
>"be
> > early" + {-moH} != "early". "be late" + {-moH} != "late" but "be late"
>+
> > {-moH} = "delay".
>
>But then again, "late" and "early" don't end in a "d", either. I said
>"V-d" to clarify that it should be [enter correct grammatical term
>here]. (Maybe I should've said "V-ed", btw.) A certain form of a transitive
>verb, usually ending in "d". Like "pleased", "bored" etc. I don't know what
>it's called in English.
>
>I guess my point was that when there's a "V-ed", there is also a "V"
>(otherwise there wouldn't be a V-ed, either). And you can translate "V"
>into Klingon by adding {-moH} to the Klingon equivalent of "V-ed".
>
>I hope I was able to make some more sense this time. }}:-)
So,
be pleased -> to please
be bored -> to bore
Let's see, a cursory look through just Klingon vocabulary turns up a couple
of exceptions to this formula:
be absentminded -> *to absentmind
be skilled -> *to skill
I don't think it works.
>mulwI'
-- Holtej 'utlh
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