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Re: KLBC - attempt at translation



[email protected] wrote:

1. Please turn off the HTML feature in your mailer.  munuQ Dapvetlh.
2. It seems you have decided to use pronouns everywhere.  Why?  It is
in most cases better Klingon to leave them out. 

> <color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param><FontFamily><param>Times New
Roman</param>> Some prefix (and a suffix or two) practice for you,
Kreth, if you want it:
 
> I accept the challenge... <<g>
> 
> </color>qaD jIlaj

qaD vIlaj - first person singular subject, third person singular
object -> /vI-/

> > I dislike you and your friend.
> SoH je juplIj tupar

Reread section 5.3.  /je/ follows both/all nouns it connects.
Reread section 3.3.4. The correct "your" possessive for a friend,
presumably a person, is /-lI'/.
Have another look at the prefix table.  Subject "I" - object "you
(pl)" is /Sa-/ not /tu-/.  Looks like you read the table backwards.
You don't get all this stuff the firt time you read TKD, but
repitition and having mistakes corrected hammers it in.

> <color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>> The rebels saw us.
> maH nulegh lotlhwI'pu'

maj. 'ach 'utbe' /maH/.

> </color>> They will follow you (plural).
> 
> <color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>tlhIH lItlha'taH chaH

qar moHaq.  The pronouns are going to get annoying really quickly if
you do that incessantly.

> </color>> Saccharine annoys me.
> <color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>jIH munuQ HaQchor

qar moHaq. 

> </color>> Your forehead resembles a wave.
> 
> <color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>yu'egh rur QuchlIj

maj. 

qech Dayaj 'ach bIqeqnISlaw'.
==

Qov - Beginners' Grammarian

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