tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 28 13:28:05 2007
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Re: Now and then?
- From: McArdle <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Now and then?
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:26:18 -0800 (PST)
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--- David Trimboli <[email protected]> wrote:
> Steven Boozer wrote:
> > "Voyages: now and then".
> [...]
> > What conjugation, if any, can I use here?
>
> Given that it's not a full sentence in English, I
> wouldn't hold you to
> correct grammar in a translation. Since we don't
> know what Klingons find
> pithy or what kind of rules-breaking they'd allow
> for something pithy,
> you can simply go on your human instinct.
>
> Changing {DaH} and {ngugh} to {DaHjaj} and {ret}
> might solve your problem:
>
> lengmey: DaHjaj ret je
>
I was going to suggest {DaHjaj} and - because I had
forgotten about {ret} - either {wa'Hu'} or {ben}. The
former if we think Klingon allows a figurative use of
{wa'Hu'} to mean "some time in the past", like the
"yesterday" in "yesterday when I was young"; the
latter otherwise. But IMHO {ret} is better.
A direct substitution of words in the English template
doesn't seem quite right to me, I think because I read
{DaHjaj} and {ret} as nouns unless they're occupying
an adverbial position in a sentence. If they are to
be construed this way, the tiny (and perhaps deluded)
Klingon part of my brain wants their connection with
{lengmey} to be better specified: these are voyages
*of* yesterday and today. Hence I'd expect the
Klingon equivalent of a genitive: the noun-noun
construction.
DaHjaj ret je lengmey
Does this make any sense?
-- mI'qey
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