[2647] in tlhIngan-Hol
jIlIH'egh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 19 13:42:34 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu (Mark E. Shoulson)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 13:36:16 -0500
In-Reply-To: Will Martin's message of Wed, 19 Jan 94 12:47:58 EST <9401191751.A
A02980@uva.pcmail.Virginia.EDU>
>From: Will Martin <whm2m@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu>
>Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 12:47:58 EST
>On Jan 19, 10:10am, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
>> Subject: jIlIH'egh
>...
>> >naDevDaq jIHtaH 'e' mubeltaH
>>
>> "naDev" 'o'Daq "-Daq" yIghItlhQo'. "'e' mulbelmoH" 'e' DaghItlhnIS 'e'
>> vIHar. "be pleased" Hech "bel", 'ej "to please (someone)" Hech "belmoH".
>> ~mark
>Hmmm. Either way, it looks like the old Sentence-As-Subject construction
>to me.
Qu'vatlh! You're right. Ho, boy are you right. I got so turned around I
didn't realize that's what I was doing. Word-order confusion, I suspect
(yes, it happens to me, too).
> My own preference would be
>{naDev jIHtaHmo' bIbel}. Anybody else have a better or alternate suggestion?
As my use of "ghommaj Damuvmo' jIQuch" shows, I agree with your preference,
'cept that you have the wrong prefix. Should be "jIbel".
>-- charghwI'
~mark
