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"my name is" (was Re: loy)

Alan Anderson ([email protected])

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: "my name is" (was Re: loy)
• Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:07:03 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
• References: <[email protected]>

ja' QeS 'utlh:

> {QeS 'oH pongwIj'e'} "my name is QeS"
>
> This is the only 100% correct way of saying one's name that we know  
> of.

jIQoch.  pIm chovnatlh wIghajbogh: <'roD 'oHvaD juHqo' ponglu' neH>
vaj lughba' <jIHvaD ghunchu'wI' ponglu'> qar'a'?

(And I've always felt that the way you did it sounds backwards, but  
that's a very old debate that I have no desire to reopen today.)

> "I
> call myself" requires two objects and a subject, which in Klingon  
> is not
> normally possible, as a verb only licenses one subject and one object
> argument at a time.

By this reasoning, "I give the officer the knife" would not be  
possible in Klingon either.  We know that not to be the case, and the  
way to do it exactly parallels the {juHqo' ponglu'} example, using {- 
vaD} for the beneficiary of the action.

> There may be another grammatical way, using {pong} as a
> verb, but we don't know it.

Um...yes, we do.  Skybox card S27 {Qo'noS} gives it to us.
{...'oHvaD juHqo' ponglu'...} "...it is called the Homeworld..."

-- ghunchu'wI'

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