tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jun 16 03:28:19 2005
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Re: Mr. Charles, wISuchqapu'
- From: bob mcfaddin <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Mr. Charles, wISuchqapu'
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 03:27:55 -0700 (PDT)
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QeS lagh <[email protected]> wrote:
ja'pu' juDmoS:
>Take these tears from my eyes and let me see
>Just a spark of the love that used to be
>If you love somebody new let me me find a new love too
>Take these chains from my heart and set me free
>jIHvaD bIghajbe'choHbogh parmaq 'ay''e'
>vIleghlaHmeH mInDu'wIj tInIjbe'choHmoH
I understand this to mean "In order that I am able to see a piece of the
love that you stopped having for me, cause my eyes to stop leaking!"
If that is true, then there are two errors here - which is not bad,
considering that this is a very long sentence for Klingon.
I noticed...but then, the original text was an extremely long sentence, too.."Take these tears from my eyes and let me see just a spark of the love that used to be..."
{parmaq 'ay''e'},
being the object of {bIghajbe'choHbogh} "which you stopped having", must
come before it, in normal OVS word order. Also, you need to change {bI-} to
{Da-} to agree with {parmaq 'ay''e'}. Sometimes a noun with {-'e'} can stand
as a header, but I don't think that the sentence calls for that.
So: {jIHvaD parmaq 'ay''e' Daghajbe'choHbogh} "a piece of the love which you
stopped having for me".
How about, to maintain the meter and the original meaning, we drop the -'e' suffix, and replace it with neH (only, merely, just)? And I like the suffestion from Voragh..'op vs 'ay'...
jIHvaD parmaq 'op neH Daghajbe'choHbogh
vIleghlaHmeH mInDu'wIj tInIjbe'choHmoH
bang chu''e' DaghajchoHchugh
vaj wa' vItu' je 'e' yIchaw'qu'
tIqwIjvo' mIrvam tIteq 'ej HItlhabmoH
. ;) Very good work, all up. Keep it up!
So, mebbe I'm getting better at this?
Savan,
QeS lagh
taghwI' pabpo' / Beginners' Grammarian
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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