[tlhIngan Hol] What Maltz does: {'otHa'}
SuStel
sustel at trimboli.name
Sat Sep 30 15:51:57 PDT 2017
On 9/30/2017 6:41 PM, De'vID wrote:
> On 28 September 2017 at 19:38, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name
> <mailto:sustel at trimboli.name>> wrote:
>
> Whatever the verb is, we've got a few of them in Klingon.
>
> *tagh*
>
> *taghbej mu'qaDveS
> */Curse warfare has definitely begun. /(CK)
>
> *Qu' DataghDI' 'aqtu' mellota' je tIqaw*/
> When you begin a mission, remember Aktuh and Melota. /(TKW)
>
> *mev*
>
> *not mev peghmey
> */Secrets never cease. /(PK)
>
> *bIjatlh 'e' yImev
> */Shut up!/ (PK)
>
> *meQ*
>
> *Ha'DIbaHmey meQ Sop 'e' tIv tera'nganpu'
> */Terrans enjoy eating burnt animals./ (CK, but notice the
> missing *lu-* on *tIv*)
>
> *to'waQ meQ vutwI'
> */The cook burns the tendon./ (KGT)
>
> And you've noticed *pegh.* There may be others I can't remember
> right now. There are also a lot of verbs whose transitivity we
> don't know, like *DIng* /spin /and *chagh*/drop./
>
> Some other verbs of this type (where the presence or absence of an
> object changes the role of the subject) that I know of are:
>
> {Don} v. be parallel, go parallel to
> {ghom} v. meet, encounter, assemble, rendezvous
> {So'} v. hide, cloak
And it's no coincidence that the ones that do it in Klingon are also the
ones that do it in their English definitions...
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SuStel
http://trimboli.name
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