[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: tul

[Bellerophon, modeler]

De'vID qatlho'. mu'tlheghvetlh vIghiItlhtaHvIS, jIHon.

I left it that way, expecting clarification if needed.

All examples of {tul} seem to have a sentence-as-object construction with
{'e'} as in "vIq pISam 'e' vItul" ("I hope we find battle"). An alternative
construction might be a clause with {-meH} as in "vIq pISammeH jItul" ("I
hope for our finding battle"). The second is as concise but it seems
clunky. Maybe because "Hope isn't a plan."
~'eD


On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 11:15 AM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Bellerophon, modeler
> <bellerophon.modeler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Any canon use aside from the three sentences in TKW that all end "tul
> Hoch
> > tlhIngan?"
> > nuq tul 'op tlhIngan 'e' vISIv.
>
> I think you were going for "I wonder what some Klingons hope?" But I
> would parse your question as "What do I wonder some Klingons hope?"
> That is, there is some specific thing you're wondering that some
> Klingons hope, and you're asking us what (we think) it is, as if it
> were some kind of guessing game.
>
> {nuq} is a question word that plugs into a sentence where you'd expect
> your answer to be. I doesn't really work for "I wonder what...", since
> that's not really a question. If a Klingon were really wondering what
> some Klingons hope, he'd just ask, {nuq tul 'op tlhIngan?}
>
> --
> De'vID
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