tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Oct 07 18:56:40 1996
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Re: Klingon Symbol (grammar)
- From: Dark Viper <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon Symbol (grammar)
- Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 21:57:03 -0400
At 04:28 PM 10/7/96 -0700, Mark Mandel wrote:
>1. You're going to join the KLI. majQa'! But that makes the KLI
>the object of <-muv->, so you need to use the prefix that means
>"I - he/she/it", namely, <vI->:
> vImuvlI'
Of course, of course! :) I do make reeeal foolish mistakes sometimes (like
this one).
>2. <-vaD> applies not just to <HolQeDmey> but to <HolQeDmey ngo'>.
>It goes on the end of the whole phrase; see TKD p. 50.
> HolQeDmey ngo'vaD
This was a clarification that I greatly needed. Thanks.
>3. Two corrections here. A warrior is sentient (a language-user),
>so you need to use <ghaH>, not <'oH>, in the pseudo-"to be"
>construction (p.68). ...
Oops. Another FOOLISH mistake. :(
>tlhInganna' SoHmeH, tlhIngan Hol yIlo'taH!
tlhIngan maH!
P.S. I had thought of this expression BEFORE I even READ or HEARD it in TKW
-- before I bought it! Of course, not meaning that I invented it... I'm sure
other people thought of this. That's probably why it's the first expression
in TKW. :)