tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jun 26 15:16:45 2009
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Re: Klingon translation
Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On 6/25/09, David Trimboli <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Michael Everson wrote:
>>
>>> âIv HoS lawâ âIv HoS puS, âeâ ghoHtaHvIS SuS bIr Hov je, ghoSpuâ
>>> lengwIâ. wep tuj tuqtaH ghaH.
>>
>> It looks like you're trying to use {'Iv} as a relative pronoun, but it
>> doesn't work that way. Use /-bogh/ for that sort of thing. But here
>> you're apparently trying to say "arguing about who is stronger." "About"
>> prepositions in English are difficult to translate directly into
>> Klingon; you usually have to split it up into a couple of pieces.
>
> I believe it's from "The North Wind and the Sun", a popular choice of
> translation exercise for conlangs.
>
> And I thought the use of questions as objects ("who is stronger than
> whom? They argue about it.") was a common device for faking relative
> pronouns. It doesn't work like the English syntactically, but it
> conveys the same meaning.
This has been answered in the thirty-some-odd messages since you posted
yours, but I'll just point out that "question as object" is probably the
single most controversial grammatical issue ever raised on this list.
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