tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 12 18:40:15 1998
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Re: poH'a'
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: poH'a'
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:38:41 -0800
At 06:09 98-02-11 -0800, K'ryntes wrote:
}When I started learning, it seemed to me that Klingon sentences are the
}same as English if I read them backwards. So when I write Klingon, I
}start at the end of a sentence and write it backwards. I'm guessing that
}since you're not sure what I wrote that my theory is wrong. Or maybe I'm
}just wrong with the grammar. I don't know. hmmmmmmmmm
I strongly suggest that you not do this, because one day Klingon will snap
into place for you and seem right, so all of a sudden the things you have
been remembering by thinking "ok, it's backwards from how I remember it"
won't work any more and you'll have to learn them over again. Just learn to
think in the right order.
Your sentence wasn't THAT bad, I understood it. It wasn't order but idiom
that had you tangled, and I've slowly learned to untangle those. Had you
written it using the idioms of a language I don't speak, I wouldn't have got
it, though.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian