[88097] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: 'u': the first authentic Klingon opera on earth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Tue Jul 27 14:33:12 2010
From: "David Trimboli" <david@trimboli.name>
To: <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
In-Reply-To: <C305E6BD33E2654DAE1F8F403247B6A6015EA8A95F86@EVS02.ad.uchicago.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:25:25 -0400
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: "Steven Boozer" <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
> Felix:
> | I believe he says:
> | may' ghe'naQ lumuchrup tera'nganpu'.
> | {The humans are prepared to present a battle opera.}
>
> Felix's suggestion makes more sense. So:
>
> may' ghe'naQna' lumuchrup tera'nganpu'
> the Terrans are prepared to perform an authentic battle opera
>
> BTW, note how he finessed "we Terrans" as simply {tera'nganpu'}. I
> would have done it as:
>
> ? may' ghe'naQna' wImuch tera'nganpu'
This is an old argument, and I'm pleased to see that Marc didn't English
this. One more piece of evidence that a verb's arguments and its prefix
must agree.
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