[86474] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Doctoral project on the Klingon language
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com)
Tue Sep 1 15:38:51 2009
From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 15:36:14 EDT
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In a message dated 9/1/2009 15:26:23 Eastern Daylight Time,
sboozer@uchicago.edu writes:
> In fact, every one of these could easily have been translated "if one
> [does X]" with no loss in meaning. And so:
>
> bIQaHchugh, yIQaH!
> bIQaHmo', yIQaH!
>
> vay' DaQaHchugh, yIQaH!
> vay' DaQaHmo', yIQaH!
>
>
> When one can help, one helps. <g>
>
You yourself 'translated' it as *can* help, so it should be {bIQaHlaHmo',
yIQaH!} and {vay' DaQaHlaHmo', yIQaH!}.
lay'tel SIvten
