tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jun 27 12:00:04 2009
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Re: {'Iv} and {law'}/{puS}
On Jun 26, 2009, at 7:32 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Spun off Mr. Everson's North Wind and Sun translation thread, does
> this work for a certain zippy retort from that Other space opera?
>
> 'Iv Dogh law' 'Iv Dogh puS: qoH ghap qoHvam tlha'bogh qoH'e' ?
I can't make much sense out of it. I don't recognize the phrase, and
I don't even know which "other space opera" you might mean.
I can figure out that the first part is supposed to be "Who is more
silly than whom?", but I still think that using {'Iv} in both halves
of the comparative construction is weird. The second part looks to
me like a bunch of words with no coherent grammar holding them
together. Either something is misspelled or the noun conjunction
{ghap} is misplaced, but without knowing the meaning, I can't tell
what needs to be fixed.
> And if not, how can one ask such "Who is more X?" type questions?
I think my earlier suggestion of {'Iv X law' latlh X puS} works.
-- ghunchu'wI'