[98685] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Vows
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (De'vID)
Wed May 28 12:53:53 2014
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Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 18:53:40 +0200
From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
To: tlhInganHol discussion group <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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be''etlh:
>> pIj maHaghmeH jIvum 'e' vI'Ip
ghunchu'wI':
> I see what you mean about the phrasing here. If you really want the
> {...'e' vI'Ip}, I'm having a hard time coming up with anything better.
> How about {reH maHaghlaH 'e' vIpotlhmoH 'e' vI'Ip}?
I wonder if Klingons have a superstition about avoiding "inauspicious"
sounding words at weddings, the way some Human cultures do. I was
going to suggest that for this sense of "work", I think Klingons would
use {baj} rather than {vum}. But then I realised that I also didn't
like {vum} because of its homophone.
be''etlh:
>> Also, I'm not sure I like the mixture of first and second person, but I'm
>> not sure how to rephrase.
ghunchu'wI':
> You mean the {bangwI' SoHtaH}? I didn't notice anything odd about it.
It was a little out of the place with all the other "I... we..."
sentences. How about {jIyIntaHvIS, reH qaQej}, which places the role
of the "actor" on the speaker, in line with the other sentences?
--
De'vID
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