[85452] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon Ad for my new novel!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Sat May 16 17:46:51 2009
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 17:42:35 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <471238.60516.qm@web82604.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
>> From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
>>> ghItlh Doq:
>>>> DubtaHba' tlhIngan Hol laHlIj.
>>> Clearly your suffix order error has been included as a
>> test.
>>> Personally, I don't like N-N-N constructions. They
>> feel clunky to me.
>>> I'd have recast this as a complex sentence,
>> thusly:
>>> tlhIngan Hol lo'meH Dubba'taH laHlIj.
>>>
>>> Or something similar. Of course, I am not one of the
>> grammarians, and
>>> there may be other errors creeping in that I fail to
>> see.
>>
>> "Your ability obviously continues to improve in order
>> for it to use
>> Klingon." A purpose clause is the wrong tool here.
>>
>> Overly long genitive constructions are poor style, but
>> /tlhIngan Hol/ is
>> so common as to seem a single unit; it does not overburden
>> the genitive
>> construction.
Terrence Donnelly wrote:
> "Dubba'taH tlhIngan Hol jatlhmeH laHlIj"
That's still a N-N-N. The last N is just a NP instead:
/jatlhmeH laHlIj/.
--
David Trimboli
http://www.trimboli.name/
