[840] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Suggestions for Marc Okrand: homophones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed May 12 23:59:55 1993
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From: mark <mark@dragonsys.COM>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Wed, 12 May 93 17:05:54 EST
A.APPLEYARD and his analyzer had some trouble with some of my
Klingon.
'aDonay, Datu'lu''a'? qatu'laH'a'?
God, do you exist? Can I find you?
I explicitly glossed 'aDonay as a Klingonization of (Hebrew)
"Adonai", meaning literally 'Lord': it is used as a quasi-name
for God.
Datu'lu''a' : 'do you exist?' or 'is there a you? are you there?'
Literally, 'does one find you?' See p. 39.
qatu'laH'a' : 'can I find you?'
Translation into good English cannot capture the parallel uses of lu', which is
why I didn't want to translate it.
(Now quoting A.APPLEYARD: first my tagline, then the output of his analyzer:)
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nubejtaHchugh jubwI', HaghtaHbej
---- * nubejtaHchugh ----- PP:[he|it|they]/us V:watch VS7:continuous VS9:if
---- jubwI' ----- V:be_immortal VS9:[agent|instrument]
---- , HaghtaHbej ----- V:laugh VS7:continuous VS6:undoubtedly
/*** suffixes in wrong order ***/
---------- (end of quoted material)
The analyzer caught my error in HaghtaHbej. I don't know what the asterisk
means in front of nubejtaHchugh; in linguistic usage I would expect it to flag
an ungrammatical or unattested form, but neither I nor the analyzer finds an
error in this word. The tagline is meant to mean approximately "If the gods
are watching us, they must be laughing."
A.APPLEYARD, I would like to put together a semantic index to the Klingon
vocabulary. Would you be willing to send me your vocabulary file?
- marqem
Mark A. Mandel
Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
320 Nevada St. : Newton, Mass. 02160, USA : mark@dragonsys.com
