tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 28 09:17:25 2007
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Now and then?
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Now and then?
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:13:40 -0600
This morning I passed a sign outside a Unitarian church advertising the
next sermon: "Voyages: now and then". (Unfortunately I can't tell you
what kind of voyages they're actually talking about.) Like a lot of us, I
tried translating this into Klingon and immediately saw the
problem: Whenever two adverbials occur in a clause they usually just
follow each other at the beginning, but "now" and "then" more or less
contradict each other. What conjugation, if any, can I use here?
Use {'ej} to link implied but omitted clauses:
lengmey: DaH 'ej ngugh
Use {'ej} to link two short clauses:
DaH maleng 'ej ngugh maleng
Use {je} to link the words (i.e. as vocabulary items):
lengmey: DaH ngugh je
No conjugation. Use punctuation:
lengmey: DaH, ngugh
DaH, ngugh: lengmey
No conjugation. Rephrase repeating the noun (punctuate to taste):
DaH lengmey, ngugh lengmey
lengmey: DaH - lengmey: ngugh
"voyages now, voyages then"
No conjugation. Rephrase repeating a verb phrase:
DaH maleng, ngugh maleng
Ideas? Remember this is a title so it should be brief, pithy and
suggestive - or at least intriguing.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons