tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Oct 03 00:43:25 1997
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Re: KBLC (&AOL'ers please reply)
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KBLC (&AOL'ers please reply)
- Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 00:42:59 -0700
At 20:18 97-10-02 -0700, QatanI wrote:
}nook-NEKH
QatanI, spell it {nuqneH}. The "nook-NEKH" is just a pronunciation guide.
}*AOL* tlhIngan-cho'a' ?
}Are you a Klingon on AOL?
maaaaj ... mu'tlheghvam Daqonta' SoH. Great: you made up this sentence
yourself. I see you've found the prefix table on page 33. Prefixes like
{cho-} are a very important part of the language, but they alays have to be
attached to the beginning of verbs. They can't stand on their own or go at
the end. For your sentence, have a look at section 6.3. There you find the
pronouns and how to use them to say something like "he is a soldier" or "you
are an AOL Klingon."
First you put what the person is, the object of what in English would be a
copula verb, and then you put the pronoun.
{mang ghaH} - he is a soldier
{tlhIngan SoH} - you are a Klingon
{tlhIngan maH} - we are Klingons
To make a statement into a question, you add the interogative suffix {-'a'}.
Normally you put this suffix on the VERB. But in a sentence like this one
there is no verb, so you put it on the pronoun.
{tlhIngan SoH'a'} - are you a Klingon?
The way you chose to say "Klingon on AOL" is just fine. {*AOL* tlhIngan}
means literally "an AOL's Klingon" or "a Klingon of AOL." Exactly what you
want. So all together:
{*AOL* tlhIngan SoH'a'?}
}tlhIngan Hol Dajatlh'a' ?
}Do you speak Klingon?
lughba'
}qaSuj'a' ? chay' ?
}Am I disturbing you? What's going on?
{chay'} in this sense means more like "What the ...?!" than a general
inquiry into things. If you walked onto the bridge of your ship and one
crew member as dead, alarm klaxons were screaming and the navigator and
science officer were fornicating in the command chair, then {chay'?} would
fit right in as "what's going on?" {qaStaH nuq} - "What is happening" is
better for a general enquiry.
Often words that can be used in multiple contexts in one language map to
several separate phrases in another language.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian