[87671] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Giving directions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terrence Donnelly)
Wed Jan 20 16:42:27 2010
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:40:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Terrence Donnelly <terrence.donnelly@sbcglobal.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <27a7b7f71001201327l2e0d5076q2fe2c23bd9da31f7@mail.gmail.com>
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--- On Wed, 1/20/10, qurgh lungqIj <qurgh@wizage.net> wrote:
> How do you give directions in
> Klingon? Do we have an canon for it?
No canon that I know of, but I generally like this.
> An example would be:
>
> nuqDaq 'oH mebpa'mey'e'? - Where is the hotel?
> ????????? - Go straight and turn left.
>
> The only thing I could come up with was:
>
> tlhopDaq yIghoS 'ej poSDaq yItlhe'
>
> Any other ideas?
Is it possible that a direction is considered a direct object? If so, then we could use {-Daq} to be even more specific:
tlhop yIghoS 'ej qachDaq poS yItlhe'
>
> qurgh
>
-- ter'eS
