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Re: Hi, I'm new here



At 09:19 98-02-26 -0800, Jan Paul wrote:
}nuqneH!
} 
} Jan Paul jiH. chu´ jiH. "Guetersloh, Germany"Daq 'oH juHwIj'e'.
} wa´maH vagh DIS jIqan.
} 
} (Well, I'm new here so my Klingon is not very good. The only time I used
} Klingon before was when I tried to translate my first book I learned English
} with at school into Klingon. But that was some time ago.)

majQa', Jan Paul.  A good start.  I'm Qov, the list's Beginners' Grammarian
and official answerer of messages from newcomers and beginners.  Put the
letters KLBC in the header of your message to make sure I see it.  Post
scathing comments about my laziness if I don't respond quickly, as I'm
supposed to.

} Jan Paul jiH.  

Always capitalize that {I}. Yes it's an extra sroke on the keyboard, but
it's hard to read without.  I don't have a problem with {Jan Paul jIH} for a
form or introduction, and I usually use {Qov jIH}, but we haven't seen it in
canon. Some people argue that when I say {Qov jIH} I am specifying that I am
"a Qov" or "the Qov."  Sounds good to me. :)

} chu´ jiH.

Have a look at the verb prefix chart on page 33.  The {jIH} here is
optional, pronouns almost always are in Klingon, but the first person
singualr no object prefix is required.  {jIchu'} "I am new."

}"Guetersloh, Germany"Daq 'oH juHwIj'e'.

majQa'. qar mu'tlheghlIj. Germany luDab tlhIngan Hol jatlhwI' law'. (You
might not know the word {Dab}, it means live in, reside at). 

} wa´maH vagh DIS jIqan.

This one requires an idiom in Klingon.  Say {wa'maH vagh ben jIboghpu'}.
You had no way of knowing that one.  We found it out because Marc Okrand
explained it in a posting on the Microsoft Network.

batlh tlhIngan Hol Dajatlh.  jumuvta'mo' jIbel.

Qov     [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian                 



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