tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu May 20 11:02:20 2004
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Re: Klingon WOTD: pop (n)
>Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, May 20, 2004.
> >
> >Klingon word: pop
> >Part of Speech: noun
> >Definition: reward
> >
> >Additional Notes: TKD Addendum.
> >
> >As used in canon:
> >
> > jonlu'meH wo'maj pop tIn law' Hoch tIn puS
> > Our Empire's highest bounty has been placed on his head. (ST5 notes)
At 01:28 PM 5/20/2004 -0400, quljIb wrote:
>Comparative-as-subject...interesting. Didn't know you could do that.
I think that phrase is using {jonlu'meH wo'maj pop} as the first noun in a
law'/puS comparative, and not actually using the law'/puS phrase as the
subject of a verb.
Since {jonlu'meH} has {-lu'}, {jon} doesn't have a (specified) subject, and
since it has {-meH}, it isn't the main verb of the sentence. {jonlu'meH} is
just modifying {wo'maj pop}, in the same way that in {pe'meH taj}, {pe'meH}
modifies {taj}.
To make this clearer, you can translate the quote more literally as "The
in-order-to-capture reward of our empire is more than anything else".
- taD
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