[750] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: "movie"mey
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue May 4 18:43:29 1993
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From: mark <mark@dragonsys.COM>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Tue, 04 May 93 16:06:06 EST
'o'Daq 'oHbogh ghItlh HoD Qanqor:
> tlhIngan ghaH James Brown'e' 'e' teHnISba' tera'ngan Hol
> jatlhbe'bejmo'.
I interpret this as "It is obviously true that James Brown is a
Klingon because he certainly isn't speaking a Terran(s')
language." But then "tlhIngan ghaH James Brown'e'" is the
subject of "teHnISba'", and should follow it. I raised this
question once -- how can we make a sentence (a clause) be the
subject of another sentence? -- and I don't think there was a
way. HoD, qay''a' Dochvam?
bIngvetlhDaq ghItlh:
> 'ej HIvje' lughbe' lulo' tlhInganpu' 'e' lutIvqu' net Sov.
If I've got it right (I haven't seen the movie), that means "And
it's (well)known that Klingons really enjoy using the wrong
glass." 'a qay' latlh: "The rover -qu' 'emphatic' may follow
verbs functioning adjectivally. ... If a Type 5 noun suffix is
used, it follows the verb, which, when used to modify the noun in
this way, can have no other suffix except the rover -qu'
'emphatic'." (4.4) Unless "in this way" refers to the presence of
a Type 5 suffix, which doesn't make much sense as a reading of
the English, it looks unfortunately as if a verb used
adjectivally -- in this case, lugh(be') -- can't take any suffix
except -qu' and/or a Type 5.
vaj, nuq ghu'?
- marqem
Mark A. Mandel
Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
320 Nevada St. : Newton, Mass. 02160, USA : mark@dragonsys.com
