Am 25.07.2016 um 11:56 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:
Was there anything else said at that qepHom'a', with regards to the "expressing age" subject ?
I was planning to add this to the website, but seems like I forgot. I'll add that when I get the time. Here's the entire page 15: ------------------- LL: We know that loSmaH ben jIboghpu’ is how a Klingon would say "I am 40 (years old)". But how would you say "when I was X, I did such and such"? MO: Maltz says: qaStaHvIS DISwIj javDIch… When I was six years old… MO: This is a confusing one, because it depends on how you count age. So I'm thinking for klingons, from the time you're born, until you're one year old, that's your zeroth year. So in terms of numbers, it matches the way we do it in english. wa’maH ben loDnI’wI’ My 10-year-old brother LL: In The Klingon Dictionary, ben was translated only as "years ago". Later, on the tape Power Klingon, it was used in the phrase cha’vatlh ben HIq "two century old ale", which confused lots of klingonists. MO: That's right, but this follows the same pattern, so it's clear you can use it for both meanings. Comparatives: jIH qan law’ SoH qan puS I'm older than you jIH Qup law’ SoH Qup puS I'm younger than you cha’ DISmo’ jIH qan law’ SoH qan puS I'm two years older than you You can also replace some of the components and say the following: cha’ ’ujmo’ jIH woch law’ SoH woch puS I'm two 'ujes taller than you. ------------------- -- Lieven L. Litaer aka Quvar valer 'utlh Grammarian of the KLI http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher http://www.klingonwiki.net