tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 11 18:10:43 1996
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Re: KLBC
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: KLBC
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 20:13:55 -0500
K'tulu chIjwI' writes:
>nuqneH
nuq DaneH SoH?
>yaS jIH DujDaq
>Dujmey tInqu' Daq
"He eavesdrops very big ships in the officer's monitor's ship." Because
of the incorrect word order, this is about the only way to interpret the
sentence grammatically.
I suspect you were trying to say something like "I am an officer in a
ship. It is very big in the ships." Lets proceed from that assumption.
Nouns with Type 5 suffixes like {-Daq} are not objects or subjects, and they
come before the object-verb-subject part of the sentence (see TKD 6.1). The
first sentence should be {DujDaq yaS jIH}. (I'd probably say something more
like {Duj yaS jIH} "I am a ship's officer".)
For the second sentence, would a simple {tInqu' Dujmey} "The ships are very
big" be okay?
>pItlh !
"Done!" "At last!" [It's not hard to get a single-word sentence right. :-)]
>My first tlhIngan-Hol
Good start. If you learn one thing each time you post and you post often,
you will soon be very skilled.
>jlwuQ !
If I replace the lowercase {l} with an uppercase {I}: "I have a headache."
If possible, try to use a font which clearly shows the difference between
"l" and "I".
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj