<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Wouldn’t it be:<div><br></div><div>qaSpu’ wanI’ QaQ</div><div><br></div><div>Since the something is an event? I though vay’ was a tangible person or item?</div><div><br></div><div>—jevreH</div><div><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 6, 2020, at 09:35, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/6/2020 9:04 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">In English we can say: "something good has happened", and in case
someone wonders we can say *exactly* the same in Greek too.
And now suppose we want to say this in Klingon..
Option A: {qaSpu' QaQbogh vay'}.
Option B: (qaSpu' vay' QaQ).
As far as option A goes, all's good. But there's something weird with
option B; if I read {vay' QaQ} without translating it in english I
"feel" it ok. But if I translate it as "good something", it "feels"
weird.
So, I'd like to ask:
Meaning-wise, is the {qaSpu' vay' QaQ} a "normal" construction, or is
this klingon phrase as weird as saying "(a) good something has
happened" ?
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<p>I see nothing weird about <b>qaSpu' vay' QaQ.</b> Would you have
any problem with <b>Haghpu' loD Sagh</b><i> The serious man has
laughed?</i> They have exactly the same grammar. If you have a
problem with one and not the other, your problem is with your
choice of translations, not the Klingon sentence. Always translate
the <i>meaning </i>of a sentence, not the individual words. If
the best translation doesn't match the original word for word, so
be it.<br>
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SuStel
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