[100155] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SuStel)
Tue Jan 20 13:45:06 2015
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:44:52 -0500
From: SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <54BE9E06.6040004@trimboli.name>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@kli.org
On 1/20/2015 1:27 PM, SuStel wrote:
> On 1/20/2015 1:17 PM, lojmitti7wi7nuv@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> On Jan 20, 2015, at 12:19 PM, Gaerfindel <gaerfindel@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Qatlh tera' Hovtay' yuQ loSDIchDaq lengmeH vay'
> I think he wants to say "traveling on Mars is difficult" (or
> complicated). This is why he asked for a sentence as subject.
>
> quljIb, you can't make a sentence the subject of another sentence. Only
> a noun or noun phrase can be the subject of {Qatlh}.
>
> Qatlh Mars ghorDaq lengmeH Qu'
> a task for the purpose of traveling on the surface of Mars is
> difficult/complex
>
> It's clumsy in English, but not so much in Klingon.
>
> Qatlh Mars ghorDaq leng
> a journey on the surface of Mars is difficult/complex
>
> {leng} is also a noun! :)
toH! "Traveling *TO* Mars is difficult" Hechlu'pu'.
ghuy'cha'! You can't say {Mars ghorDaq leng} as a noun phrase, and shame
on me for saying it! (There's another English-ism that's crept into
Klingon.)
Qatlh Mars leng
a Mars-journey is difficult/complex
Presumably, in context, one knows that you're talking about traveling TO
Mars, not on it.
Otherwise,
Qatlh MarsDaq lengmeH Qu'
a task for the purpose of traveling to Mars is difficult/complex
or even
Qatlh MarsDaq lengmeH mIw
procedure(s) for traveling to Mars is(are) difficult/complex
If you're talking about the complexity of the apparatus, try
Qatlh Mars Duj
Qatlh Mars nejwI'
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SuStel
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