tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 24 22:23:50 1998
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Re: yargh lut 'ay' cha'DIch
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: yargh lut 'ay' cha'DIch
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 22:22:55 -0800
At 06:28 98-01-22 -0800, ghunchu'wI' wrote:
}ja' peHruS:
}>The following is chapter two of a story I have written specifically for
}>teaching purposes. yargh is the waiter's name.
}
}Not bad. It's as excruciatingly easy to read as the "Dick and Jane"
}stories I assume its style is based on. :-) I do have one concern
}with the usage of a conjunction, though.
}
}>ghoS jabwI' neH yaS
}>jach yaS jabwI'
}>'ej yaS ghoS yargh
}>jatlh yargh nuq DaneH
}
}The {'ej} in the next to last line seems inappropriate to me. Klingon
}doesn't use "and" to indicate sequence the way English sometimes does.
}I'd either use {vaj} instead or just leave it out completely.
jIQochbe'
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian