This is not a great translation, no matter how you look at it, though I suspect that the exchange is not: “Why should we care about humans fighting each other?” “I obviously remember it because honor is important." It’s closer to: “So, humans fight each other. Why do we care?” “Because honor is important. I obviously remember that." It’s ugly, either way, but the {-mo’} part makes more sense as an answer to the previous question, instead of as a dependent clause for the main clause that follows it. Anyway, I concede the point. Canon proves me wrong again. charghwI’ vaghnerya’ngan rInpa’ bomnIS be’’a’ pI’.
On Nov 17, 2020, at 1:49 PM, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
On 11/17/2020 1:43 PM, Lieven L. Litaer wrote:
Am 17.11.2020 um 19:09 schrieb Will Martin:
While I understand that it’s common in English and perhaps other human languages to answer a “Why?” question with a dependent clause starting with “Because”, I’m curious as to whether or not we can assume the same is true in Klingon.
We have a clear canon example for this in Star Trek Into Darkness:
Klingon: {toH, Hey Humanpu'. qatlh DISaH?} "Why should I care about a human killing humans?"
Uhura: {potlhmo' batlh, vIqawba'.} "Because you care about honor." I don't get what the vIqawba' is doing here. If it means what it looks like it means, I obviously remember it, then this is not a subordinate clause lacking a main clause.
-- SuStel http://trimboli.name <http://trimboli.name/>_______________________________________________ tlhIngan-Hol mailing list tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org