[1934] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: tlhIngan 'o' Humghach
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Nov 4 00:45:02 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
From: DSTRADER@delphi.com
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1993 00:36:29 -0400 (EDT)
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As for that first bumper sticker message which seems to be
{nuvpu''e' DughuHmoHbogh SoSlI' maHtaH}.
I agree with charghwI', that {-taH} is unnecessary. Scrap it!
But still, look carefully at this sentence:
{nuvpu''e' DughuHmoHbogh SoSlI' maH}
That relative clause is screwy. "We are the people whom your mother
warned you." {nuvpu''e'} is the apparent object of {DughuHmoHbogh}
but that prefix-- I'm sorry. I don't think so.
Did you mean, "We are the people /about/ whom your mother warned you."?
In that case, it's a whole other story. Maybe you can retain your
original intended meaning in, "We are the people because of whom your
mother warned you." No, just boot out the relative clause altogether."
"Your mother warned you about US."
{maHmo' DughuHmoHta' SoSlI'}
It's just slighty Terran-idiomatic. Maybe a totally different approach
would be taken for tlhIngan Hol.
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