[1273] in tlhIngan-Hol
puqpu' QIch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jul 14 15:04:08 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: Wed, 14 Jul 93 12:15:17 EST
~mark-vo':
>>wej jejwI' ghaj mIvwIj.
>>mIvwIj jejwI' bIH wej. [OK, should be wej'e', but it spoils the meter]
>"My helmet's points are three" is a very English-based idiom.
>Pronoun-verbs are copulas, indicating identity, not quality. Perhaps I
>should emend this line to
>mIvwIj jejwI' mI' 'oH wej
>"My helmet's points' number is three". Still singable, just speed up a
>little for "jejwI' mI'".
Why not:
wej law' mIvwIj jejwI'
I'm going along with Capt. Krankor's view of transitive constructions, as I
read it. ... Unfortunately that's bad for the meter, because it makes the
stress come out wrong. But grammatically, why not?
- marqem
Mark A. Mandel
Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
320 Nevada St. : Newton, Mass. 02160, USA : mark@dragonsys.com
