[937] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: All right, which is it?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri May 28 01:18:57 1993
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From: Captain Krankor <krankor@codex.prds.cdx.mot.com>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Thu, 27 May 93 15:02:48 -0400
marqemvo':
>Michael Eversonvo'
>> ngaSwI' neH 'oH porgh 'e'
>> Sut neH 'oH porgh 'e'
>> DIr neH 'oH porgh 'e'
>>
>>?
>(under the subject line "All right, which is it?")
>I translate this as
>
> The body is just a container.
> The body is just clothing.
> The body is just skin.
>
>OR
>
> The body wants a container.
> The body wants clothing.
> The body wants skin.
First off, let me assume that what was intended was porgh'e', not
porgh 'e'.
No, the second parse set doesn't work. "The body wants skin" would
have to be DIr neH porgh'e', without the 'oH. If we try to
interpret neH as "to want", then we get 'oH porgh'e' as the subject,
which follows no grammatic rule-- not even noun-noun cuz you can't
use noun-noun with pronouns; it would have to be porghDaj'e'. The
only parse you could come up with would be if 'oH were the subject
and porgh'e' were an *address* (5.6, p58), which would mean you're
talking to the body: "It wants skin, body!", which seems pretty
unlikely.
--Krankor
P.S. "The body is just a shell" would obviously be:
Exxon neH 'oH porgh'e'
<duck!>
