tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 22 22:36:43 1997
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Re: Romulan Empire: part one
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Romulan Empire: part one
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 22:36:41 -0700
At 12:55 97-10-20 PDT, ghItlh wrote:
}Here is the beginning of a story. Note: if anyone wants to recieve the rest
}of the story when I finish writing it, contact me and leave your e-mail.
}Also, if anyone can tranlsate this story into Romulan, Vulcan or another
}dialect of Klingon, contact me.
}
}Romulan Empire: part 1
}
}Derets is a Klingon
}Tort saw Derets
}Tort is a Romulan
}"Aefvadh!" said Tort
}"Qu'vatlh!" said Derets
}Tort shot Derets
}"Areinnye'nhnah!" said Tort
}"What the #$*@ is happening?" said Derets
}Tort killed Derets
}Tort stole Derets' weapons and armor
}Tort left Ragronk
}Tort attacked Kronos
}"Hna'h!" he said
}
}To be coninued....
}
}
}Klingon version:
}
}Deretlh ghaH tlhIngan'e'
Note that in the to be structure as well as other structures, the subject
goes last. You've said "A Klingon is Deret." Say {tlhIngan ghaH Deret'e'}
}Deretlh legh torIt
maj.
}torIt ghaH romoluSngan'e'
inverted, as explained above.
}torIt jatlh "Aefvadh!"
{jatlh torIt} The subject always goes *after* the verb. The thing said can
go before or after the {jatlh torIt}.
}Deretlh jatlh "Qu'vatlh!"
same comment
}Deretlh HoH torIt
maj
}torIt jatlh "Areinnye'nhnah!"
}Deretlh jatlh "qaStaH nuq jay'?"
same OVS (Object Verb Subject) problem
}Deretlh may'luch nIH torIt
may'luch = battle gear. That's reasonble.
}raghroq DoH torIt
{DoH} is back away from. Not the same connotation as "left." Look up
{tlheD} and {mej}.
}Qo'noS HIv torIt
maj.
}jatlhlu' "Hna'h!"
This says "'Fire' was said." It indicates that someone said fire, but is
vague about the sayer. For "He said 'fire'," say {"Hna'h" jatlh}. (For
those who don't speak Romulan, "H'nah" is Rihannsu for {baH}).
}To be continued....
}
}If anything in this story is spelled incorrecty or is translated
}improperly, then you may let me know. I will correct it. Also: How do you
}say "to be continued" in Klingon?
What does it mean? "<Some unspecified subject> will continue it"
{taHlu'}
I would prefer {taH lut} "the story will continue" as clearer. We don't
know what Klingons say, but they would understand this.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian