[tlhIngan Hol] Placement of the qatlh

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Mon Feb 18 11:09:13 PST 2019


On 2/18/2019 11:34 AM, Jeffrey Clark wrote:
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Feb 18, 2019, at 11:29, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name 
> <mailto:sustel at trimboli.name>> wrote:
>>> {chay' Duj chenmoHlu' 'e' vISov}
>>> "I know how the ship is constructed."
>>
>> No. This is a relative pronoun in English, and cannot be translated 
>> this way in Klingon.
>>
>
> Different context, but would the following be valid?
>
> {chay’ Duj chenmoHlu’ ‘e’ vIjanglaH}
> “How is the ship constructed, I can answer that.”
>
> Or is it still problematic?

Same problem. It's treating *chay'* like a relative pronoun, which isn't 
the case in Klingon.

-- 
SuStel
http://trimboli.name

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