tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 07 18:50:40 1996
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Re: KLBC: vInIDqa' (Re: KLBC: HIboQqa')
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: KLBC: vInIDqa' (Re: KLBC: HIboQqa')
- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 21:51:53 -0500
ghItlh Soqra'tIS:
>vInIDqa':
>Eccl. 12:8 lo'lahbe'! lo'lahbe'! ghojmoHwI' jatlh. Hoch'e' lo'lahbe'.
>
>bo'olqang'a'
vI'olqangbej 'ach vI'olHa'nIS.
The big problem is that your word order is incorrect. A sentence's
subject must *follow* the verb.
"The teacher spoke" should be {jatlh ghojmoHwI'}.
"*All* is worthless" should be {lo'laHbe' Hoch'e'}.
The small problem is that you miscapitalized {H} three times. :-)
I also have a nagging suspicion that "preacher" and "teacher" are
two different concepts in Klingon. To "preach" is more a matter of
delivering a sermon than causing a student to learn. Remember that
the root word of "teacher" in Klingon is actually {ghoj} "learn".
I would say {jatlhwI'}, or {jatlhwI''a'}, or maybe {jatlhchu'wI'},
depending on my opinion of the speaker.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj