tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 20 18:25:19 2003
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Re: tlhobqa'qu' taghwI'
- From: "QeS lagh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: tlhobqa'qu' taghwI'
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 09:21:20 +1000
ghItlh voragh:
>First, {Such} is "visit". The verb you want is {nej} is "look for, seek,
>search for".
qatlho'. mumISmoHpu' "German" Hol wot "suchen". yabwIj Dabbogh Holmey mu'
'oH Hutvagh'e'. (tagha', mu'vetlh vIlo'laH. :D)
>Second, you're right; it's not addressed in TKD. Although I admire your
>solution - {be'etor nuq} "B'Etor's what" - {nuq} "what" doesn't work this
>way in Klingon. The way to say this is as a command, not a question:
>
> be'etor Doch Danejbogh yIngu'!
> Identify the thing of B'Etor that you're looking for!
>
>This use of a relative clause sounds awkward in English, but apparently
>it's common in Klingon.
qatlho'qa'. tlhIngan Hol DelwI' pab vIchenmoHtaHvIS, jItlhob'egh.
tlhob QonoS "Lingua": "What elements of noun phrases can be questioned?"
(*Lingua Questionnaire*; chovnatlh 42.1, 'ay' wa', DIS: wa'SaD Hutvatlh
SochmaH Soch), 'ej vIjang vIneHpu'.
Thanks a second time. While I was trying to write some of a Klingon
descriptive grammar, I asked myself this question. The journal "Lingua" asks
in its descriptive grammar questionnaire "What elements of noun phrases can
be questioned?" I just wanted to answer that question.
tlhIngan Hol DelwI' pab wIchenmoH luneH'a' naDev HolQeD yabpu'? (*Paramount*
chaw'mo'. :S)
Have the linguistically minded among us thought about composing a
descriptive grammar of Klingon? (With Paramount's (eventual) permission, of
course :S
Qapla',
QeS lagh
<<lojmIt qa'anglaH neH. lojmItvetlh Da'elnIS SoH.>> (I can only show you the
door; you are the one who has to walk through it.) - Laurence Fishburne, The
Matrix
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