tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Apr 11 11:30:36 1996
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Re: Okrand's New Klingon Book
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Okrand's New Klingon Book
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 14:29:46 -0400 (EDT)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Joel Peter Anderson" at Apr 11, 96 05:59:21 am
*Barnes & Noble*Daq vIghoSta' 'ach paqvam vItu'laHbe'. pa'
lI'be'chu' ngevwI'pu'qoq.
nuqDaq 'oH paq'e' vItlhob.
jISovbe' jang.
De'wI'Daj tlhob qoHvam. tu'lu'be' jatlh. vIleghlaw' 'ach paq
Daq vIQawbe' jatlh.
wejpuH.
DaH paqvetlh vIneHqu'. DaH!
More to the point, when I told the guy at the counter that I
spoke Klingon, he said, "You mean tlhIngan?" like I was
supposed to be impressed.
So I said, "paqvetlh vIneHqu'," and he stared at me like I was
from another planet.
qoHna'.
charghwI'
According to Joel Peter Anderson:
>
> Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen wrote:
> >
> > joel anderson writes:
> > > Last night, at a Barnes & Nobles I saw, and probably will buy tonight,
>
> [And in fact, I did]
>
> > > Okrand's new book.....Anyone else see this?
> >
> > I have indeed. I received my advance copy from Simon & Schuster yesterday
> ..
> > While the book is very sparse in terms of new vocabulary, it does have some
> > insightful examples of short phrases and discourse.
>
> Yes! I am greatly enjoying it. It has the advantage of being very accesible
> for most (English reading) fans, as it is almost entirely in DIvI' Hol. There
> are a lot of cute jokes in phrases, like the ancient yIvoq 'ach yI'ol (trust, but
> verify). I only wish it had 1) a pronounciation guide (NOTHING in it about
> how to pronounce tlhIngan Hol) and 2) some minor grammatical intro, and a
> vocabulary. But those are minor quibbles....
>
> It could make a nice companion to an Intro to tlhIngan Hol class...
>
> --
> joel anderson * [email protected] * [email protected]
> mIghghachvo' yImej 'ej yIQaQ; roj yInej 'ej Dochvam yItlha'
> http://pages.prodigy.com/mrklingon * [email protected]
>
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