lieven:
Hope this helps a bit
Yes, it does ! And I think I understand (finally) what's going on. If I walk in the kitchen to see that someone ate my pie, then I will say: {QI'yaH ! chabwIj Sopta' vay' !} But if I want to say that "when someone eats pizza, he always needs to drink beer too", then I will say {pItSa' chab Soplu'taHvIS vaj reH HIq tlhutlhnISlu' je} Because I learned something new, I'm happy, however it amazes me, how something so important eluded me so far.. De'vID:
The Skybox cards were full of minor transcription errors, so we know somebody involved in putting them together had been somewhat careless
maj. This explains a lot actually, however it is a pity something like this is the case; canon is supposed to enlighten people and not confuse them. qunnoq On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 11:53 AM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:
On 19 September 2016 at 17:38, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:
It always pisses me off, to read canon sentences which make no sense ;
qorDu' SaHlu'chugh 'ej matlhlu'chugh vaj wa' tlhIngan ghob potlhqu'
The {qorDu' SaHlu'chugh} is correct. But when it comes to the {matlhlu'chugh} then again things make no sense. [...]
Others have addressed the {-lu'} part, so I'll skip it.
And as if all these weren't enough, when we read past the {vaj} the sentence takes the meaning "then one (or one's) very important klingon virtue" and then period. ?!?!?!
It's generally recognised that whoever transferred Okrand's sentence to the card dropped a verb at the end of that sentence, probably {tu'lu'}. (The Skybox cards were full of minor transcription errors, so we know somebody involved in putting them together had been somewhat careless.)
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