<div dir="auto"><div><div dir="auto">I'd suggest avoiding transliteration, as the author/'original translator' also avoided. (If anything, it would be a transliteration of 'Kuduk':</div><a href="http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Kuduk">http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Kuduk</a>) <div dir="auto">Maybe instead of *{Ha'bIt}, use a corruption of {QemjIq DabwI'} or {QemjIq renwI'} or {QemjIq chenmoHwI'} ? </div><div dir="auto"><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">-Tad<br>sent from my smartphone telephone</div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 10:27 AM SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>We now have the necessary vocabulary to translate the opening
paragraph of one of my favorites. I've got a couple of variations.
Can anybody suggest improvements?</p>
<p>The version that doesn't rely on copulas:</p>
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<p>yav QemjIq Dab Ha'bIt. 'upbe' QemjIqvam; lambe' 'ej yIQbe'.
'olQan 'uchbe' ghargh 'e'rIn megh'an je HuH pIw je. QaDbe' je
QemjIqvam; chImbe'; Do'ol luyughbe' tlhoy'. quS Soj joq
Hutlhbe'. Ha'bIt QemjIq 'oH, vaj churHa'.</p>
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<p>The version using copulas, but which seems a bit pedantic to me:</p>
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<p>yav QemjIq Dab Ha'bIt. 'upbogh QemjIq lambogh 'ej yIQbogh
'oHbe'. 'olQan 'uchbe' ghargh 'e'rIn megh'an je HuH pIw je.
QaDbogh QemjIq 'ej chImbogh 'oHbe' je. Do'ol luyughbe' tlhoy'.
quS Soj joq Hutlhbe'. Ha'bIt QemjIq 'oH, vaj churHa'.<br>
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