tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat May 23 08:14:35 1998
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Re: (KLBC)First words
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: (KLBC)First words
- Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 08:11:03 -0700
At 02:06 98-05-23 -0700, dragonwolf wrote:
}nuqneQ:
The word that Klingons may sometimes use to begin conversations is {nuqneH},
not *{nuqneQ}.
}tlhIngan mu'ghomwIj pawta' (My Klingon dictionary has arrived)
The subject of the sentence must go after the verb. Plus, I question the
volition of your dictionary in choosing {-ta'}.
{pawpu' tlhIngan mu'ghomwIj}
}DoH tlhIngan Hol jIghojrup (Now I am ready to learn Klingon)
Better. You have the sentence in the right order. Watch spelling though,
"now" is {DaH} not {DoH}. And because the thing you are ready to learn is
the direct object of the verb learn, you need the 3rd-person-object-taking
prefix {vI-}. See section 4.1.1.
DaH tlhIngan Hol vIghojrup
}taghwI'mo' jIQagh (Because I am a beginner, I will
}make mistakes.)
This says "Because of the beginner, I will make mistakes."
If you want to say "because of (a concept that can be expressed in a
sentence)," you need to write that sentence, then use the *verb* suffix {-mo'}.
taghwI' jIH - I am a beginner (compare with {tlhIngan jIH} 6.3)
taghwI' jIHmo' - because I am a beginner (read on in 6.3 to see what the
verb suffix is doing on a *pronoun*)
taghwI' jIHmo' jIQagh - Because I am a beginner, I will make mistakes.
}tugh tlhIngan Hol jIjatlhchu' (Soon, I will speak Klingon well)
Again the object of the verb must be acknowledged with the {vI-} prefix on
{jatlh}.
}I think that is enough for a first try.
majQa'. yIHem. You did a good job choosing things to say that are
straightforard enough not to confuse you, but tricky enough to let you make
a couple mistakes to learn from.
}dragonwolf
}
}PS Can some one help me translate my name to Klingon. Surely there is
}a wolflike animal on one of the Klingon worlds and there are dragons on
}Berengaria 7 so the words must exist but I can't find them.
I leave this to someone else. I don't know the descriptions of the Klingon
fauna.
Qov [email protected]
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