[1166] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Mandatory Self-introduction
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Jul 3 03:49:47 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: mark <mark@dragonsys.com>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 93 17:17:34 EST
vIghItlhpu':
> rkk-vaD:
> "Hesse"vo' SoHtaH qar'a'
tlhob holmes/mughlaw'wI':
> marqem-vaD
> What does the noun qar mean? --mughlaw'wI'
qar is not a noun but a verb, meaning "be accurate". This use is
documented in the Addendum, sect. 6.4 (p. 179), so if you have
only the 1st edn. of TKD you don't have the reference:
Tag questions (ending a statement with a question such as
"right?" or "isn't that so?") are foremed by using the verb
gar [obviously a typo for qar -- marqem] _be accurate_ plus
the suffix -'a' _interrogative_. This verb either follows
the verb or else comes at the end of the sentence.
My message to rkk (Kloko) was a question: "You're from Hesse,
aren't you?" (His German text had used a tag-question word,
"gel", which is distinctive of the Hessian dialect.)
"Hesse" - vo' SoH - taH qar - 'a'
Hesse from you [continuous] accurate [question]
Kloko translates it as "From Hesse, are-you-being accurate?",
which is incorrect. Perhaps he looked up qar in the Addendum
vocabulary but overlooked the grammatical entry referred to
above.
- marqem
Mark A. Mandel
Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
320 Nevada St. : Newton, Mass. 02160, USA : mark@dragonsys.com
