[86227] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Questions with law'/puS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Jul 9 05:09:36 2009
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "'tlhingan-hol@kli.org'" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 08:21:19 -0500
In-Reply-To: <41D13F375FD44E84B71CF14E5D2EC265@HPBrownPC>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
qe'San ((Jon Brown)) wrote:
>>> And if that construction works then a "what?" construction might be:
>>>
>>> nuq nom law' Hoch nom puS, qIvo'rIt qItI'nga ghap Dangu'
ghunchu'wI':
>> There's no verb meaning "be fast". {nom} "quickly" is an adverbial.
>> You'd have to rephrase the question as something like this:
>>
>> nuq Do' tIn law' Hoch tIn puS?>
>
>One of those times when I saw what I wanted to see rather than what was
>actually there.
There's no quality "be fast" but we do have {moD} "hurry" and {chung} "accelerate". Instead of saying something is fast/quick, you can say it goes fast/quickly:
nom yIghoSqu'
Maximum speed. ST5
or goes slowly:
cha'maHvagh vatlhvI' Hong. QIt yIghoS!
Slow to one quarter impulse power. ST5
--
Voragh
Canon Master of the Klingons
