[87618] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: qoSwIj
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kff@sics.se)
Thu Jan 7 08:23:15 2010
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:20:12 +0100
From: kff@sics.se
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Quoting David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>:
> On 1/4/2010 5:27 PM, kff@sics.se wrote:
>> Quoting Thorwald Peeters<qlingon@xs4all.nl>:
>>
>>> DaHjaj'e' 'oH qoSwIj 'e' }}:-)
>>
>> Congratulations!
>>
>> But what is the function of the last {'e'}? I parse the stuff before
>> that as 'My birthday is *today*', which seems perfectly logical and
>> sufficient to my meagre knowledge of Klingon grammar.
>
> The correct way to say "My birthday is today" is {DaHjaj 'oH qoSwIj'e'}.
> The {-'e'} is required in any "to be" sentence.
vIyaj
>
> I suspect Thorwald meant to emphasize the "today," as you guess above,
> but then you'd have to put {-'e'} on two different verbs in the
> sentence, and that'd be weird. We don't know if that kind of thing is
> allowed.
pab qab vIlo'be'taH
Now, that's just part of what I wanted to say. First, I'm not sure
that 'using bad grammar' is best rendered ar {pab qab lo'taH}. Second,
and more importantly, I can't figure out how to say "in the future".
I've found {pIq} which seems to convey the meaning of future, but that
is a noun and I can't find a way to convert it appropriately. I
suppose {pIqDaq} is too facile...
/buSwI'
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