tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 16 13:44:22 1997
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Re: KLBC: Short and Easy
In article <[email protected]>, Qov
<[email protected]> writes
>At 23:54 97-12-15 -0800, James Coupe wrote:
>
>}>chay' yuQvam wIchargh?
>}
>}nganpu' Hogh tIHoH
>
>chaq *Friday*mey wInop 'ej *Monday* law' DIchel?
>
>}I'd appreciate what you *think* that says cos I'm not sure if I got it
>}right or not. Not to completely tell you what it is, but it's an N1-N2
>}construction with a you-them imperative verb - I think.
>
>This *is* a noun-noun with a you-them imperative, and perfectly correct
>Klingon for "Kill the inhabitants' weeks!"
>
>It wasn't until I read this out loud to my husband, in puzzlement at the
>peculiar method someone was suggesting for conquering a planet, that I
>realized you probably meant, "Kill the weak inhabitants!" Check the
>vocabulary and try this again. See section 4.4 to see how to use verbs
>adjectivally. Noun-noun isn't the trick here.
>
>Qov [email protected]
>Beginners' Grammarian
>
Mental note to self: learn to type.
Hogh was wrong. I *meant* Hoch
so would
nganpu' Hoch tIHoH
mean "Kill all of the inhabitants"?
--
James Coupe (remove some crap to reply)
Pah!! I hope it shits in your jogging suit!