[90104] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] nuq bop bom: 'ay' vaghmaH vagh:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Felix Malmenbeck)
Mon Oct 17 08:46:01 2011
From: Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se>
To: Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh <qeslagh@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:17:04 +0000
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Cc: "tlhIngan-Hol@KLI.org" <tlhIngan-Hol@KLI.org>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
>> pegh, 'a pochtaHvIS lubej Sung puS.
> I'm not saying the usage is wrong, but to me 'op Sung would be better
> than Sung puS here. Sung puS seems a bit like a calque (presumably "a
> few natives"?), and in the Klingon it sounds like the emphasis is on
> there having been *only* a few (so puS as opposed to law', rather than
> puS as opposed to pagh).
It fels a bit wrong to me, as well, but there is a canonical usage where *puS* seems to be used like "some":
pIpyuS pach DaSop DaneHchugh pIpyuS puS DaghornIS
"If you want to eat pipius claw, you'll have to break a few pipiuses." [TKW]
Note that this is an encouragement to break a few pipiuses as opposed to zero, not a few as opposed to many.
That being said, I still agree that 'op feels better.
DujvamDaq 'op SuvwI' tu'lu'bogh po' law' tlhIngan yo' SuvwI' law' po' puS. [S7]
"It has [...] some of the finest warriors in the Klingon fleet."
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