[89533] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: mu'mey chu': jul
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Fri Sep 9 12:19:17 2011
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 11:12:55 -0500
In-Reply-To: <CA+7zAmNk+WoAbfA2Rcp2pcug8R4SbNAAD=FN+F4N7vMURdrHRw@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
ghunchu'wI':
>> chaq qIDHey yajlaH ghaH neH. <pe'vIl> rurlaH.
De'vID:
> qID 'oH'a' <pe'vIl>?
Add the topic marker {-'e'} to the subject of a pronoun as verb sentence:
qID 'oH'a' <pe'vIl>'e'?
> qIDvam yajlaHchugh ghaH neH, chay' qIDna' 'oH 'e' DaSovlaw'?
>
> (A bit rusty… someone remind me if the <chay'> should go between the <'oH>
> and the <'e'>.)
Oops! This is the forbidden question-as-object. An easy work-around is just to split it in two:
qIDna' 'oH'a' <pe'vIl>'e'? chay' bISov?
It's a private pun for Okrand; no one else would get it. Some time ago taD reported that: "At Farpoint 1.5 weeks ago, Marc Okrand … said that he made the word what it is because of twins he knew, Pat & Phil, whose names he incorporated into this word."
Another one I remember off the top of my head is {jIl} "neighbor": Okrand confirmed at qep'a' wejDIch (1996) that he had a neighbor named "Jill."
And yet another set is {megh'an}, {'er'In} and {qa'rI'}: At qep'a' wa'maHDIch (2003) Okrand confirmed that Kari is the mother of his twin nieces, Megan and Erin.
Anyone know of any others?
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
