tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 29 00:44:23 2006
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Re: Hop veng Sum
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Hop veng Sum
- Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:44:11 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Quvar, ja':
>I translate
>"I thought the nearest village was miles away"
>{jIHDaq Hopqu' vengHom Sum 'e' vIHar}
>But that looks like a contradictin to say that the close city is far.
>Is it? Any better suggestions?
From TKW, we have {bortaS nIvqu' 'oH bortaS'e'} "revenge is the best
revenge", which shows the suffix {-qu'} can be used where English would use
a superlative adjective (like "best", "biggest", "nearest"...).
I would have put it as {jIHDaq Hop(-qu') Sumqu'bogh vengHom 'e' vIHar} "I
believed that the village which was nearest was (very) distant".
Savan,
QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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