tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Dec 01 19:44:28 2012
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ret
<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Gaerfindel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 12/1/2012 11:32 AM, De'vID wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Gaerfindel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>></span>
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A correction: {netlh DIS law' ret tIQbe' yuQvam'e' tIQ,
Sornganpu' HuDnganpu' lung'a'pu' loDHompu' je toq.}</blockquote>
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jIyajbe'. jatlhlaH'a' lung'a'pu'qoqvetlh? 'ej toq 'Iv?<br>
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In order:<br>
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{lung} means "lizard" (KGT 218) so a {lung'a'} would be a "great
lizard." {lung'a'pu'} implies they're capable of language, so...<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I guess I just don't recognise the original quite. "Tens of thousands of years ago, this ancient planet was not ancient, tree-dwellers, mountain-dwellers, (talking) great-lizards, and boys, [which is/are] inhabited (?)".</div>
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I indicated that {yuQvam}, "this planet," was the topic by adding
the suffix {-'e'}. Ergo this planet (Earth) is/was inhabited by the
creatures I listed. Given that I stated the topic in the previous
sentence, I didn't think I needed to restate it in the second.<br></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>{toq} doesn't take an object. The way you're written the sentence makes it look like it's being applied adjectivally to {Sornganpu' HuDnganpu' lung'a'pu' loDHompu' je}, which doesn't seem to be part of the previous sentence. This is why I asked {toq 'Iv?} "who (i.e., among the tree-dwellers, mountain-dwellers, talking giant-lizards, and boys) is/are inhabited?" That is, which of those nouns does (the apparent adjective) {toq} apply to?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Either the punctuation is incorrect (how does everything after the {tIQ} relate to the sentence before it?), or the sentence is missing something (maybe it should be {tIQbe'taHvIS}?), and/or you mean something like {Dab} rather than {toq} (in which case the subject is the creatures and the object is the planet). As written, I don't seem to be able to parse your sentence grammatically, although I think I now get the gist of what you're trying to say.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br>De'vID<br>
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