[86275] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: tlhIngan Hol vItIv 'ach bong Qaghmey vIgher
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI')
Wed Jul 15 20:19:24 2009
In-Reply-To: <4A5044B25DA14BA4A7EEF4898CFE3890@HPBrownPC>
From: "ghunchu'wI'" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:17:37 -0400
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On Jul 15, 2009, at 6:49 PM, qe'San ((Jon Brown)) wrote:
> The overall feeling I want to get across is "I enjoy the Klingon
> language.. and tthis is despite the fact that I keep making
> mistakes along the way"
tlhIngan Hol vItIvtaH, 'e' nISbe' QaghmeywIj.
> Is there a way to express things like "even though", "even when",
> "despite" in Klingon or even work arounds to get that across?
How does {'ach} "but" not work for your meaning?
I once translated "Everyone welcome -- even Klingons" as something
like {Hoch DIlaj; tlhIngan DIlaj je}, repeating the verb. If you
want to try to capture the "even when" phrasing, maybe you could say
{tlhIngan Hol vItIv, 'ej tlhIngan Hol vItIv jIQaghDI'.}
-- ghunchu'wI'
