tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 30 18:58:50 1996
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KLBC - bIDo'
- From: [email protected] (alan weiner)
- Subject: KLBC - bIDo'
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 03:00:55 GMT
- Organization: Technology 21
I'm wearing my TKD down to shreds...
I'm finding I frequently have beginners-type questions that don't get
answered in subsequent posts. If it's ok, I'll post them as KLBC for
clarification.
A recent exchange included the following:
<post by Amos>
to which Jimmy responded (in part):
Fourth, biDo' ghItlhlI' tlhIngan-Hol.
which was corrected (?) by qSeroHS (Niall Hosking):
Secondly, I presume you got your word-order wrong...shouldn't
that be tlhIngan Hol (no hyphen) ghItlhI' bIDo' ?
(and also corrects Jimmy's "bi" --> "bI")
First question: which *is* correct word order. (I assume the latter,
since Jimmy was saying something like "{do something} writing Klingon"
Second question: How does bIDo' translate? TKD lists Do' as "lucky"
and bI as "subject You, no object." I don't see how luck fits in to
this context - "You are lucky to write Klingon" ??
I'm confused...
- Al Weiner -
[email protected]