[Tlhingan-hol] Trains

[Felix Malmenbeck]

> nom vIHbogh Doch

Indeed. I find such phrases very often get cumbersome, though; sometimes easier to recast as multiple sentences.
Works very well if you're just making a list of things, though.

> Marc Okrand answered this very question about how to say "a fast ship"
> for the qepHom that just took place in Saarbrucken.  Here is what he
> had to say:

Dajqu'!

> He said in Klingon you wouldn't say that something is fast -
> you'd say it moves fast.

Makes sense; a fast computer is different from a fast animal.
...unless you're talking about a computer that's been shot out of a cannon, anyway.

Anyhow, nice to have this confirmed. I believe this was first seen in paq'batlh, with the phrase {lujang maS’e’ loQ So’be’bogh QIb lurur} ("They reply, shaped as the crescent moon.")
This phrase rather interestignly shows {loQ} coming after the object; not sure if that's allowed because of the -'e', or some undiscovered grammatical rule, or just fancy language.



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To: Felix Malmenbeck
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Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Trains

loghaD:
> Sadly, because there's no verb meaning "be fast" (only an adverb meaning "quickly"), it's a bit difficult saying "thing that moves fast".

Marc Okrand answered this very question about how to say "a fast ship"
for the qepHom that just took place in Saarbrucken.  Here is what he
had to say:

Maltz was unaware of an adjective meaning "fast" (or "slow" for that
matter). He said in Klingon you wouldn't say that something is fast -
you'd say it moves fast. So instead of "You have a fast ship," you could
say {nom Ieng DujlIj} "Your ship travels fast" or {nom Ieng Duj
Daghajbogh} "The ship that you have travels fast." If "your fast ship"
is supposed to be the subject or object of a sentence, you say
something like {tlnqu' nom Iengbogh DujlIj} "Your ship that travels
fast is very big" (or, less literally, "Your fast ship is very big") or {nom
Iengbogh DujlIj vllegh} "I see your ship that travels fast" (or "I see
your fast ship").

Scan of his answer:
https://plus.google.com/110116202842822234244/posts/iBj9uB1p68X

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