tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 04 11:29:15 1998
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Re: KLBC: qaD Hogh
ghItlh Marian Schwartz
> ghItlh Qov
> >The only grammar point I get to make is in your English. English speakers
> >"write" "take" "sit" or sometime "do" tests. We don't "make" them.
>
> Attempt to express etymology in Klingon:
> QaghHomvam tlhej'a' *German* Hol? mu'maj "do"vo' 'oHbogh mu''e' ghaj
> German Hol. "tun" 'oH. wa'vatlhben "do" lo' rur lo'Daj 'ach DaH pIj
> lo'be'lu'. DaH "machen" lulo'. mu'maj *make*vo' 'oHbej.
>
> chay' bIvang?
> Was machst du?
>
> Germany Dabbe' Doneq, qar'a'? 'a *Belgium* *The Netherlands* ghap Dab,
> qar'a'? Belgian Hol rur German Hol, qar'a'?
qar, *Netherlands* vIDab. qar je, *Dutch* Hol rur *German* Hol.
(*Belgian* Hol tu'be'lu': *Belgium*Daq *Dutch* Hol *French* Hol
*German* Hol je jatlhlu'.)
'ach *Dutch* HolvaD <wat doe je?> 'oS <chay' bIvang?>. <chenmoH> neH
'oS <maken>.
(well, except for certain idioms and other things I don't remember
right now... :)
> Qapla'
> qoror
/Doneq
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