[Tlhingan-hol] We're not all all right with "alright", right? (was: 'arDIch)

[Felix Malmenbeck]

> pab quprIp ghajbe'mo' DIvI' Hol mujbej pagh, 'ach muj chovnatlh 'e'
> luHartaHvIS nuv law', chovnatlhvetlh  DajunnIS.

ghobe'. chaq vIjun 'e' lupoQ, 'ach vIjunnISbe'.

'ach De' chu' tughojmoHta'mo' Satlho'. Hol pab vIwemqang, 'ach vIwem 'e' vISov vIwemDI' vIneH. 

> As J.R.R. Tolkien might have said, as a word, "alright" is uncouth.

This, I'm prepared to accept, in part because I seldom strive to be perfectly couth in my choice of words, but primarily because "uncouth" is one of my favorite words in the English language :)

> So the stories are true. There really are 'grammar police' in some parts
> of the world!

Svenska Akademien has a price on my head for unsolicited use of the Saxon genitive, inflecting gender-neutral, third-person, singular pronouns without a license, and the creation of excessively long compound words (or, as I call it, "ordsammansättningsöverflödsbrott").

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meQtaH qo' 'e' bej neH luneH 'op.

________________________________________
From: Robyn Stewart [robyn at flyingstart.ca]
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 17:56
To: tlhingan-hol at kli.org
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] 'arDIch

pab quprIp ghajbe'mo' DIvI' Hol mujbej pagh, 'ach muj chovnatlh 'e'
luHartaHvIS nuv law', chovnatlhvetlh  DajunnIS. rut jIvqu'
HarwI'pu'vetlh 'ach nIqIch jIvwI'pu'vetlh DaneHbe'chugh pabqoqchaj DapabnIS.

DIvI' HolvaD "split infinitive" yIqel. tlhIngan HolvaD <mu'tlheghvam
vIchoHnIS charghwI'vaD jIqonmo'>.

- Qov

At 03:07 '?????' 1/27/2013, you wrote:
>ghItlhpu' naHQun, jatlh:
> > As long as we're on this tangent, I'll post this:
> > http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/all-right-versus-alright.aspx
>
>naDev pabbe' pab be' 'e' vIHar. (Sorry, couldn't resist the pun.)
>tIgh neH nob ghaH; chut tu'lu' net tobbe', 'ej mu'na' 'oHbe' net
>tobbe'bej. legh:
>
>http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/5485
>
>Commonwealth English Segh vIjatlh jIH, 'ej jIHvaD pImqu'bej
>"alright" "all right" je. 'e' lu'angchu' chovnatlh'e' nobbogh pab be':
>
>"These figures are alright." - yap mI'meyvam, mI'meyvam lulajlu'
>"These figures are all right." - lughchu' Hoch mI'meyvam
>
>Hol SeQ vIjatlhtaHvIS "alright" vIlo'be' jIH 'e' vIchIDrup, 'ach
>mu'tay'wIjDaq mu'na' 'oHtaH.
>
>QeS
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