[87930] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Age
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (qurgh zantai-lungqIj)
Tue Apr 6 08:04:01 2010
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 07:57:06 -0400
From: "qurgh zantai-lungqIj" <qurgh@wizage.net>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
In-Reply-To: <BAY127-W64B65C03765B07E9C0040AA180@phx.gbl>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
HISlaH HISlaH. mu'tlheghvetlh vIghItlh, ghItlhbe' voragh 'ej mu'tlhegh lugh ghItlh DloraH.
I was meaning to write what DloraH said:
vaghnetlh ben DISmey bIH
They are 50000 year old caves
That's what I get for posting when I should be sleeping.
qurgh
-- Palm PrewIjvaD QInvam vIngeHOn Apr 6, 2010 3:26 AM, R Fenwick <qeslagh@hotmail.com> wrote:
ghItlhpu' Voragh, ja':
>vaghnetlh ben bIH DISmey'e'
>The caves are fifty thousand years old
Actually, this isn't right, as Okrand describes in a message to the MSN newsgroup:
"The word {ben} can be used to mean "years old," but in Klingon, one doesn't say "I am X years old." The
phrase {loSmaH ben jIH} (loSmaH "40", ben "years ago", jIH "I"), if anything, would mean "40-year-old me"
or the like. It would parallel {cha' vatlh ben HIq} "Two Century Old Wine" (cha' "two", vatlh "hundred", ben
"years ago", HIq "wine, liquor")... "I am 40 years old" would be expressed as: {loSmaH ben jIboghpu'}"
(Okrand to msn, Dec 12 1996)
With that in mind, I'd phrase it as {vaghnetlh ben chenpu' DISmey} "the caves were formed fifty thousand
years ago".
Savan,
QeS 'utlh
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