[99816] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Maltz about "The Klingon Art of War"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon Nov 17 13:35:25 2014
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:35:07 +0000
In-Reply-To: <F52986192E9FE346B0B7EF3D6F98E8771243326F@EXDB3.ug.kth.se>
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> >>>
> naj dream is a verb that can take as an object something that is being
> dreamt of. So qul naj is dream(s) about fire or dream(s) of fire.
> <<<
Brad:
>> Could we expect then that {naj} would "not" use {'e'} with SAO ?
>> {tlhIngan Hol vIjatlh vInaj}
Felix:
> I would expect that it does.
>
> <tlhIngan Hol vIjatlh 'e' vInaj.>
> = "I speak Klingon. I dream about [the previous sentence]."
> ~ "I dream about me speaking Klingon."
>
> Note that <naj> probably refers to imagining things while sleeping (hence
> <najmoHwI'> = "lullaby"), rather than the sort of dreaming that Martin
> Luther King jr. is famous for.[]
Another way of using {naj} with {-taHvIS} was heard in "Power Klingon":
bInajtaHvIS qeylIS Daghomjaj
May you encounter Kahless in your dreams! PK
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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