[tlhIngan Hol] vengDaq, vengmeyDaq je

[Jeremy Silver]

On Saturday, 9 September 2017 13:52:00 BST SuStel wrote:
> On 9/9/2017 4:31 AM, Jeremy Silver wrote:
> > On Friday, 8 September 2017 23:26:13 BST De'vID wrote:
> >> On 6 September 2017 at 15:15, Jeremy Silver<jp.silver at tiscali.co.uk>  
wrote:
> >>> Still, on a related note, I've been having problems recently trying to
> >>> figure out a reasonable way, with or without {ngIq}, to say "atom by
> >>> atom
> >>> [something happens]" and "cell by cell [something else happens]".
> >> 
> >> I presume this has to do with this DSC promo?
> >> https://twitter.com/StarTrekNetflix/status/901134702622367748
> >> "Atom by atom, they will silence us. Cell by cell, our souls shall
> >> become theirs."
> > 
> > Indeed, for this excercise I think I settled on this version (which omits
> > ngIq) for the whole promo text. Even after re-reading mayqel's thread and
> > this one a few times, I'm/still/  not clear how to use ngIq for my own
> > purposes yet.
> > 
> > {nughoStaH chaH.
> > wa' HeySel ghIq latlh HeySel, nutammoH chaH.
> > wa' HanDI' ghIq latlh HanDI', qa'chaj moj qa'maj.
> > tlhIngan maHtaHmeH maghobnIS. potlhchu' meqvam.}
> 
> This doesn't work. *ghIq* is an adverbial; it attaches to sentences, not
> nouns.
> 

Good point, but I'm not too sure it's the atoms that are doing the silencing.

So how about this instead?:

{nughoStaH chaH.
latlh HeySel qa'taHvIS wa' HeySel, nutammoH chaH.
latlh HanDI' qa'taHvIS wa' HanDI', qa'chaj moj qa'maj.
tlhIngan maHtaHmeH maghobnIS. potlhchu' meqvam.}