[tlhIngan Hol] Skybox 1 {juHqo' Qo'noSvo' loghDaq}

De'vID de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 14:44:07 PDT 2019


On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 15:28, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:

> On 4/4/2019 9:08 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
>
> Skybox 1 has (among other sentences) the following phrase:
>
> {juHqo' Qo'noSvo' loghDaq lengtaHvIS tlhInganpu'} with the translation
> "..expansion of the klingon people from their homeworld of kronos into
> space.."
>
> Shouldn't the "from their homeworld of kronos" be given as {Qo'noS
> juHqo'vo'} instead of {juHqo' Qo'noSvo'} ?
>
> Not really. *juHqo' Qo'noSvo'* is just an example of apposition. *From
> Kronos, the homeworld.*
>
> What's interesting about this to me is that a *-vo'* isn't added to both
> words. If I were writing this sentence I would have said *juHqo'vo'
> Qo'noSvo'**.*
>
Without knowing beforehand what {Qo'noS} was, I'd have interpreted this to
mean that {Qo'noS} was a part of {juHqo'}.

Compare, e.g., {tera'vo' qa'naDa'vo'...} and {*juHSep qa'naDa'vo'}.

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De'vID
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