[87098] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Question about Klingon books (e.g., Gilgamesh et al.)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seruq)
Tue Nov 24 23:21:12 2009
From: "Seruq" <seruq@bellsouth.net>
To: <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:19:49 -0600
In-Reply-To: <a1173fff0911241948t1963d11ekde0942fc8691921c@mail.gmail.com>
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> The English is "He discovered what which was unseen" and the
> Klingon is <leghbe'lu'wI' tu' ghaH>. Doesn't this mean "He
> found the unseer"?
N-wI' is not always a person. It can be a thing.
> Ought it not be <leghbe'lu'ghach> or <leghbe'lu'bogh wanI'>?
> Or is the passive/inverse meaning of -lu' take to its extreme here?
<leghbe'lu'ghach> is a noun referring to the action of not-being-seen.
<leghbe'lu'bogh wanI'> refers to an event, an occurance.
Seeing this I do ask myself about putting -wI' on a -lu'. Can we do this?
I know... It is really really old tlhIngan Hol; no' Hol.
DloraH
