tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jun 05 12:20:18 2005
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Re: More on Ray Charles
- From: bob mcfaddin <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: More on Ray Charles
- Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 12:20:08 -0700 (PDT)
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QeS lagh <[email protected]> wrote:
ja' juDmoS:
>matay' 'e' Hoch ram vInajtaH 'e' DaSovbe'
>"You don't know that I dream each night that we are together."
>Well? whattaya think? Does that work?
. *{'e' Hoch ram vInajtaH} is ungrammatical; {'e' Hoch ram vInaj} is
the correct way of saying this.
jang ghunchu'wI':
>DoS puSlaH 'e' wISovbe'. chaq bIv . chaq pab. maSovbe'.
>{naj} is defined for us as "dream", not "dream about". I will understand
>what is intended when someone uses it with an object, but absent canon
>support I will not do it myself.
Well put. We don't know that {naj} can sensibly take an object - although
that said, I think {matay' 'e' vInaj} is more likely to be grammatical than
{qanaj}, since we've used other verbs in that way. {chup} and {Har} spring
to mind.
Okay, a minor recast, then.. vInajtaHvIS Hoch ram matay' 'e' Dasovbe' .
"You don't know that we are together each night in my dreams (when I'm dreaming)."
It sounds more ... I don't know, ponderous that way, but it's more grammatically correct, Klingon-wise, yes? (naj) no longer has an object... and whether "you don't know that I dream about us being together" or "you don't know that we are together when I dream", the essential point is still conveyed.
Better? Worse? Comments?
jajvam lururbogh jajmey'e' lutu'lu' muja'ta' SoSoywI'
juDmoS
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