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Re: yargh lut 'ay' cha'DIch



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'

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