tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 14 19:43:59 2007
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Re: vIghro'vetlh
- From: McArdle <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: vIghro'vetlh
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:43:14 -0800 (PST)
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--- Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 12:23 PM Wednesday 11/7/2007, mI'qey wrote:
>
> >"vay' Dalajqang pagh Dalajqangbe' 'e' vIloy 'e'
> vInIDDI', Qatlhqu' 'e' vItu'."
>
> "when I attempt to guess that you're willing to
> accept something or else
> you're not willing to accept it..."
>
> "when I attempt to guess that you're either willing
> to accept something or
> you're not willing to accept it..."
>
> >points of grammar:
> > 2) are there better ways to express "whether"?
>
> In all the discussion, I think we've overlooked your
> second question.
>
> I assume you're trying to translate "whether or not
> you're willing to
> accept something". AFAIK Okrand has never
> translated a sentence with
> "whether", but why not use {-chugh}?
>
> vay' Dalajqangchugh 'e' vIloy...
> I guess (that) if you're willing to accept
> something...
>
I didn't think of that. Thanks. That certainly
alleviates some of the wordiness of my version.
Obviously the phrase ". . . whether or not you're
willing to accept something" isn't in the original
quotation I was trying to translate. It was my effort
to rephrase "what you will find acceptable" into
something I was comfortable trying to put into
Klingon. A poor attempt, I now think. ". . . if
you're willing to accept something" is much better.
Also, depending on how {loy} works, perhaps this:
vay''e' Dalajqangbogh vIloy ...
... I guess something that you're willing to accept
qavan
-- mI'qey
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