[Tlhingan-hol] Story: ghuv = The Recruit - 51

[Robyn Stewart]

The one that trips me up is when complex verbs are reflexive. QeS does it all the time: rIQ'eghmoHlaHbe'mo' or the like. As non native speakers it's hard to know what's just our understanding and what's poor Klingon. It's possible, in universe, that the proverb itself would be hard to parse were it not so familiar. I agree that negation is sometimes harder to parse.

In this case:

luSopbe'meH yIHmey boghbejpu' torgh

is worse, I think. 

On 2013-10-23, at 0:31, "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Qov:
> > luSopmeH yIH boghbe'bejpu' torgh. = "Torg was definitely not born for
> > tribbles to eat him."
> 
> I have trouble parsing {-meH} with negation.
> 
> I initially read that as:
> "Torg was (definitely not born) for tribbles to eat him."
> 
> It wasn't until I read the translation that I understood you meant:
> "Torg was definitely not (born for tribbles to eat him)."
> 
> I have the same trouble with {Hoch DaSopbe'chugh bath bIHeghbe'} so I apparently have trouble understanding {-be'} when it negates complex sentences.
> 
> -- 
> De'vID
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kli.org/pipermail/tlhingan-hol/attachments/20131023/4a10c1fd/attachment-0001.html>