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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/13/2019 10:41 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Suppose I write:
{'elaDya' SepDaq vIghro'mey tIQ tu'lu'}.
This would mean: "there are ancient cats at the region of greece".
Now, suppose I write:
{'elaDya' DaqDaq vIghro'mey tIQ tu'lu'}
The way I understand it, this would mean "there are ancient cats at
the site/location of greece". And the only difference I "feel", is
that perhaps this sentence focuses more on the "location".
However, since I'm not a native english speaker, I wonder:
Meaning-wise, what's the actual difference between this and the first sentence ?
Do you, as native american speakers, "feel" any difference between
these two sentences ?</pre>
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<p>You're too focused on how the translation "feels" rather than
what the Klingon actually says. Sometimes a single Klingon
syntactic structure will "feel" differently with different
semantics.</p>
<p>For example, you could say <b>nuH pegh DaSov'a'</b><i> Do you
know the secret of the weapon? Do you know the weapon's secret?</i>
Both English versions a perfectly fine. But if you say <b>'elaDya'
Sep DaSov'a',</b> it sounds fine as <i>Do you know the country
of Greece?</i> but it doesn't work at all as <i>Do you know
Greece's country?</i> Identical syntax in Klingon doesn't mean
entirely identical syntax in English translations.</p>
<p>In this case there is a difference because it is common to refer
to a region by name <b>('elaDya' Sep)</b> but not any old site by
name <b>('elaDya' Daq).</b> The first one will be interpreted as
the region named Greece; the second one will be interpreted as a
site in Greece (a <i>Greece site</i>), not as the place named
Greece. <b>'elaDya'</b> is a <b>Sep,</b> not a <b>Daq,</b> even
if it is technically a <b>Daq</b> in a strict semantic sense.<br>
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