tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 20 23:35:54 1997
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RE: KLBC Baby Story
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC Baby Story
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 97 00:30:47 UT
jatlh [email protected]:
> lut vI'ja' vI'neH
{vIneH}. Don't add a glottal stop.
> 960916.91 boghpu' puqloDwI'
*I'd* use Stardate 96460.2 :)
If this is the time he was born, you don't use {-pu'}. {-pu'} indicates that
the action is already complete as of the time. Your son was not already born
on Stardate 96460.2, that's *when* he was born. Just say
Stardate 96460.2 bogh puqloDwI'
(Sorry, I like using my Stardates better. :-P )
> jatlh ghaH DaH 'e' tagh ghaH
There's an easier way to say this.
DaH jatlhchoH.
He begins to speak now.
> <dadada> chenmoHpu' QIch wa'DIch
> nom <dada> mojpu'
If we're not to use aspect on the sentence {DaH jatlhchoH}, then we shouldn't
really use it here, either. Remove {-pu'} from both of these.
> Quchbej DajSoS 'ach mu'mey neH
{-Daj} is a suffix, not a prefix. {SoSDaj}.
Also, "new words" would be {mu'mey chu'}.
> <mama> neHba'
> neH vIneH mu'mey 'e' jatlh ghaH
First of all, never use {'e'} with a verb of speaking, like {jatlh}. It's
just a rule in TKD.
I think you've misplaced the words here. They're out of order.
mu'mey chu' vIneH neH
I merely want new words.
Remember, {neH} is a word which comes before the word it modifies. And
remember sentence order: Obj-Verb-Subj.
> neH ghaH DaHjaj 'e' Hev
This is very weird. It didn't want {'e'}. And "what she wanted" is a bit
tricky.
DaHjaj Doch neHbogh Hev.
Today she received the thing which she wanted.
Read TKD's section on {-bogh} to clear this up.
> DaH <vavavava> jatlh puqloDma'
> puqloDwI' jatlh 'e' muquvmoH
Again, you don't want {'e'}. This needs a subordinate clause with {-vIS}.
muquvmoH puqloDwI' jatlhtaHvIS
My son honors me while he speaks.
> This is the first time I've written anything so long. I have a feeling I
> made a ton of mistakes.
ram. bIlujlaHbe'chugh bIQaplaHbe'.
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SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
Stardate 97141.7