[1730] in tlhIngan-Hol
How do you say "Movie"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Oct 18 12:33:28 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
From: (Mark E. Shoulson) shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 93 12:27:44 -0400
In-Reply-To: Paul J. Clegg's message of Mon, 18 Oct 1993 12:10:24 -0400 <931018
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>From: Paul J. Clegg <cleggp@rpi.edu>
>Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1993 12:10:24 -0400
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>I was writing a message to a few friends asking about what we might be doing
>this upcoming weekend, and I wanted to ask "what's the movie this Saturday?"
>Well, none of them know Klingon, so I wasn't too worried about being precise,
>but I thought I'd fly what I did put down for you guys to pick on...
>I wrote:
>nuq ghaHtah jIH'e'?
Well, you certainly threw me badly; at first glance I read something like
"what am I?", and not even correct at that. Just confusion from the
homograph "jIH"; not your fault.
It doesn't work too well for me, that sort of asks "what's the screen
being?" How about:
[HaStaDaq] nuq cha'lu'?
"What's being shown (on the visual display)?" "HaSta" might be better than
"jIH", or it might not; I'm not sure.
~mark
