[86712] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: mech
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI')
Wed Oct 28 17:58:53 2009
In-Reply-To: <27a7b7f70910281217r1f00d351qbe9d07afe58dc72a@mail.gmail.com>
From: "ghunchu'wI'" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:56:57 -0400
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On Oct 28, 2009, at 3:17 PM, qurgh lungqIj wrote:
> Do we have any canon on how to use mech?
> I'm trying to say "I want to trade my X for your Y". Is it as
> simple as:
>
> DaqtaghlIjvaD betleHwIj vImech vIneH
I wouldn't expect this use of English "for" to match the Klingon {-vaD}.
Without specific official guidance, I'd probably consider the things
being traded as a plural object and say it like this:
DaqtaghlIj betleHwIj je DImech vIneH.
-- ghunchu'wI'
