[84010] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: KCD 1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Fri Jan 18 16:16:35 2008
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:14:01 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <6.2.1.2.2.20080118142250.0298d770@imap.uchicago.edu>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Steven Boozer wrote:
> qa'vaj:
>>> I was playing around with KCD, and hit a spot where one of the
>>> Klingons said something like "our houses have always stood
>>> door-to-door". I couldn't help wondering, how would a Klingon say
>>> that? It seems quite idiomatic.
>
> SuStel:
>> How about
>>
>> reH Sumchuq juHmeymaj
>>
>> In context, the sentence was meant to mean that their physical
>> dwellings were next to each other, though there was an intentional
>> and disingenuous undertone of their Houses (note the capital letter)
>> being closely allied (which they were most certainly not).
>
> {Sum} "be near" isn't transitive, so you can't use {-chuq} "[do
> something] to each other/one another".
Hagh qoHpu' neH HeghtaHvIS SuvwI'pu'!
All right, I'd go with this, then:
reH juHwIjDaq Sum juHlIj
SuStel
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