tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 29 05:33:58 2007
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Re: Dilbert Comic in Klingon for August 20, 2007
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Dilbert Comic in Klingon for August 20, 2007
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:32:10 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Voragh, ja':
>Using {-taH} in *{Huch qaDIltaHbogh} "money that I continuously
>pay (keep paying) you" makes it sound like an annuity of some kind
>or even an open-ended blackmail payment!
My thought was that there's no specific suffix for "regularly" or
"continuously and at intervals", so {-taH} was as close as it was possible
to get. Nonetheless, you make a good point... {Huch qaDIlbogh} is probably
all that one needs in the phrase.
>How about just *{vummeH Huch} "money (for the purpose of) working"?
Not a bad suggestion! That seems to work. (And I can't think of why I didn't
think to use a {-meH}-clause before...)
>Okrand used {tIn} as the quality with {pop}
De'vam cho'angmo' jIbel. Putting all that together, {vummeH HuchlIj tIn law'
Hoch tIn puS} "your salary (lit. "money for working") is the largest".
QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pab po'wI' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language
Institute
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
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- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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