tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 16 08:46:52 1995
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Re: TLHINGAN-HOL digest 289
- From: Jarno Peschier <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: TLHINGAN-HOL digest 289
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 17:48:10 -0100
At 19:17 15-11-95 -0800, you wrote:
>> wej Dochvetlh vISovbe'; pongmeyvetlh vIleghbe'pu'...
>>
>> [Damn, replying in Klingon while you have to look almost every word up in
>> TKD takes *ages*! Ehh... how am I doing, for a beginner...?]
>
>You're doing fine. When I was a beginner, it also took me hours to look
>up every word to read the Klingon posts.
Well, for that I've written myself a program. It interprets individual
Klingon words. It helps *a lot*. But when writing something in Klingon
myself I have to start looking u almost every word.
>Eventually, I forced myself to
>memorize the words so I wouldn't have to keep looking them up.
I start to memorize some words (or at least recognising them) already. It
just takes (a lot of) practise.
>Once I
>began to recognize the more common words, Klingon became a lot easier.
That's right. As I'm beginning to recognize some more common things, Klingon
really gets to start looking easier. An example: I never really got hold of
the concept of using 'e' by just reading TKD. Now that I see 'e' used on
this list quite a lot of times (often with translations in English) it
suddenly started to fall together like pieces of a puzzle. And that's nice.
>The
>first time I read an entire Klingon sentence without opening my TKD, I was
>very excited.
Yes, I know!
>Just keep practicing!
luq. tul chonob 'e' qatlho'. ;-)
(I hope {tul} is also a noun...?)
Jarno Peschier, [email protected], 2:2802/245.1@Fido
162:100/100.1@Agora, 74:3108/102.1@QuaZie, 27:2331/214.1@SigNet
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