tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 06 19:15:41 1998
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RE: veS bom
- From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: veS bom
- Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 19:09:36 -0700
DaHjaj yaHwIjDaq jIpawDI' qaSchoHlaw' chach.
SISqu'taHmo' ghaytan Dej qach.
jIvumlaHbe'mo' tugh jIDach.
Today when I arrived at my duty station an emergency was apparently
starting to happen.
Because it was raining quite hard, the building was likely to collapse.
Because I could not work, I was soon absent.
pagh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Qov [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, April 05, 1998 5:21 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: veS bom
>
> Cleaning up my mailbox I found some KLBC challenges I never issued.
> Here's one.
>
> For anyone who has read through the grammar section of TKD:
>
> Find two Klingon words that rhyme.
> Incorporate them into two rhyming lines that use correct grammar.
> Translate the rhyme into literal English.
>
> Example:
>
> loj qa'vIn. ratlh pugh.
> jIQongchoH. qaS Qugh.
>
> The coffee is gone. The dregs remain.
> I fall asleep. A disaster happens.
>
> The emphasis here is on KLINGON GRAMMAR. Not art, meter, poetry,
> relevance
> of the meaning of the two lines, or your ability to make the
> translation
> sound good. Two lines that don't rhyme, but have correct grammar are
> better
> than to that do rhyme but break grammar rules in order to do so.
>
> Qapla'.
>
> Qov [email protected]
> Beginners' Grammarian