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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lojmIt tI'wI' nuv)
Mon Sep 13 08:24:14 2010
From: "lojmIt tI'wI' nuv" <lojmitti7wi7nuv@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:12:08 -0400
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Today, I thought I might be late. I said to myself, "How late will I be?"
I considered how I would say that in Klingon.
I rejected {'ar jIpaS} because, though an English speaker would understand it, grammatically, I've only seen {'ar} used adjectivally, not adverbially. It might make sense as {tup 'ar jIpaS}, though that is, itself, an odd grammatical construction, as would be {tup 'ar vIpaS}. One has no grammatical connection between {tup} and the verb. The other uses an adjectival verb transitively, and Okrand generally tends not to do that. I could even stretch it to {qaSpu'mo' tup 'ar jIpaS?} It's a little awkward, but it carries the meaning clearly enough.
So, I thought the best way might be simply to say, {tugh jIpaSqu' 'e' vISIv}.
Feedback? Other suggestions?
pItlh.
lojmIt tI'wI' nuv
