tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 28 07:18:35 1994
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Re: jIlIH'egh
- From: [email protected] (Jennifer James)
- Subject: Re: jIlIH'egh
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 94 13:32:00 -0640
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-=> Quoting Klingon Language List to Jennifer James <=-
-=> on Stardate 06-17-94 09:22 <=-
jatlhpu' Holtej:
KLL> nuqneH Jennifer! tlhIngan Hol Dalo'mo', toDujlIj Da'ang.
chobatlhqu'.
KLL> wa' QaghHom vItu'.
vIghojmeH pabwIj Dalugh vIneH
> Holmey vIghojtaH vItIv.
KLL> The use of {'e'} is sometimes tricky, and I
KLL> still get caught on it. You do use it correctly earlier
KLL> in the post, so I figure it was just a simple oversight.
Oversight or incorrect choice, I'm not sure which. The choice
whether or not to use {'e'} is so much like the choice in French
whether to use an infinitive or a subjunctive clause that I got
confused. In French, it would have been an infinitive, so I left
out the {'e'}. Anyway, thanks for the correction. I'll watch out
for that.
KLL> The sentence should be:
KLL> Holmey vIghojtaH 'e' vItIv
jIyaj
KLL> Other than that, your post was exemplary! majQa'!
qatlho'neS
KLL> This suggests that the
KLL> suffix for "-self" should be {-'egh} (taking {'} as a consonant).
KLL> So, I believe your subject should have been {jIlIH'egh}.
KLL> Understandable mistake!
Correction made in my TKD copy. Thanks.
I'm a beginning amateur linguist, so I may be asking a lot of
linguistics questions, if that's OK. Question for the day: is
enclosing English text (morphemes? utterances?) in "" and tlhIngan
Hol (or whatever language is being analyzed) in {} standard
linguistic convention, or a convention that has been adopted by this
list? Just curious. :-) Hope this isn't too off-topic for
English -- just want to know the proper terms & conventions for
talking about tlhIngan Hol in English. Thanks! :-)
Qapla'
Jennifer James
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