tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu May 03 13:49:20 2007
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Re: jIH
At 02:53 PM Thursday 5/3/2007, naHQun wrote:
>*DallaSDaq jIDabtaHbe'.
>*IndianapolisDaq jIDabtaH.
DajatlhnIS: <<DALLAS vIDabtaHbe'. INDIANAPOLIS vIDab.>> <<Dab>> wot
Dalo'taHvIS, DaqDaq <<-Daq>> moHaq yIlanQo'.
IOW the place is the object of {Dab} "reside in/at, dwell in/at". And if
you're saying that you've moved from Dallas to Indianapolis, this is a good
place to use {-choH} "change in state/direction": {DaH INDIANAPOLIS vIDabchoH}.
>boSwI' jIHbe'.
DALLASDaq nuq DaboSpu'?
>jabwI' jIH.
>'ach puS SopwI'pu' wIghaj~jabwI' jIHbe'; loSwI' jIH ;o)
jIhagh 'ach DajatlhnIS: <<SopwI' puS DIghaj.>>
Here you have two clues that {SopwI'} is plural: {puS} "be few/several/a
handful" and the prefix {DI-} "we [do something to] them". (Use {wI-} when
the object is singular.) I always prefer to drop plural suffixes whenever
possible; it takes advantage of the unusual objective verb prefixes and I
think feels more Klingon. YMMV.
SIbI' qIDlIj vIyajpu'. (I wonder if there's a way to make this work in
Klingon?)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons