[700] in tlhIngan-Hol
indefinite pronoun
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Apr 27 09:01:33 1993
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From: A.APPLEYARD@fs1.mt.umist.ac.uk
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: 27 Apr 93 11:57:52 GMT
trI'Qal <DOBELBOWER%OPUS@cutter.mco.edu> wrote on 25 Apr 1993 17:40:32 -0400
(EDT) (Subject: "Phantom of the Opera" ngotlhghachmey?):-
> [in a poem] I was unable to translate 'somehow'. I hope it comes across in
the translation. If not, I am open for suggestions how to do it.
[Relevant verse of the poem]:-
Wishing you were somehow here again... Wishing you were somehow near...
Sometimes it seemed, if I just dreamed... Somehow you would be here.
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naDev DaghoSqa' DaH yIneHtaH... = Wishing you were somehow here again...
<naDev> = N:[here|hereabouts]
<DaghoSqa'> = PP:you_sg/[he|it|them]
V:[approach|go_from|proceed|follow_course|thrust] VS3:[do_again|resume]
<DaH> = A:now
<yIneHtaH> = PP:imperative/[him|it] V:want VS7:continuous
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chocholqa'pu' vIneH taH... = Wishing you were somehow near...
<chocholqa'pu'>
= PP:you_sg/me V:get_nearer VS3:[do_again|resume] VS7:perfective
<vIneH> = PP:I/[he|it|them] V:want, <taH> = V:[continue|go_on|endure]*
<vIneHtaH> = PP:I/[he|it|them] V:want VS7:continuous
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neH jInajpu'chugh bISaHjaj = Sometimes it seemed, if I just dreamed...
<neH> = A:merely
<jInajpu'chugh> = # PP:I/- N:dream VS7:perfective VS9:if
<bISaHjaj>
= PP:you_sg/- V:[be_present|care_about|be_concerned_about] VS9:I_hope_that
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'e' DaH rut nargh law'pu' = Somehow you would be here.
<'e'> = P:that_abovementioned, <DaH> = A:now, <rut> = A:sometimes
<nargh> = V:[escape*|appear], <law'pu'> = V:be_many VS7:perfective
<narghlaw'pu'> = V:[escape*|appear] VS6:apparently V:be_many VS7:perfective
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In TKD vay' (noun) = "somebody, anybody, something, anything", so vay'mo' =
"by means of somebody or something". Is this acceptable for "somehow"? Note
that English "somehow" can = "by some means" and also "to some extent".
