tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Oct 10 12:08:50 1998
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Re: KLBC new to the list
- From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC new to the list
- Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 06:41:46 -0700 (PDT)
Ordinarily only the current BG, pagh, may answer KLBCs (and it looks
like he overlooked your note the first time you posted it) but I just
got a note from him that he's away for a few days and that I may deal
with KLBCs that seem to be going unanswered. I'm a former BG.
lab R. Covey:
> I am fairly new to the list. tlhnIngan Hol vIjatlhlaHbe' ,tho I am
> trying to learn to speak thlnIngan Hol. This is my first posting to
> the list.
Watch your spelling. It's /tlhIngan/.
> I do have a copy of TKD as well as KGT and the Klingon Way.
More than I started with. :) That should get you going, if not
overload you!
> I would like to introduce myself,I am QaneS.
> I looked throughout the books I have as well as searhed through the
> tapes (CK and PK) and have not found a term for storyteller,in the
> sense of a bard of poet.
Consider /bom/ and the augmented meaning of /qon/.
> So I have attempted to extrapolate a
> thlnIngan term based on what I can find and the little that I know.
My
> attempt is as follows:
> lutwI'ja' teller of a story (ie:a bard,or poet)
> Is this on the right track? Or way off?
You have there /lut/ - story, the verb suffix /-wI'/ - one who is, one
who does and the verb /ja'/ - tell, report. A good start. Lets
polish it up.
A verb suffix (a) must be used on verb and (b) must be attacked to the
end of the verb. /lut/ is a noun. Add /-wI'/ to the verb /ja'/ and
you get /ja'wI'/ "one who tells; one who reports; teller."
Checking section 3.4 for word order in constructions with two nouns,
you can see that a teller of stories could be /lut ja'wI'/. If you're
thinking of using this for your actual list name, see what the FAQ has
to say about names at
http://labs.thomtech.com/~dspeers/klingon/faq.htm#2.2 and what I said
last week to someone else at
/tlhIngan-Hol/current/0060.html
As a side note, in the examples we have seen in the books, etcetera,
the object of the verb /ja'/ is the person spoken to. The verb that
takes as its object the thing spoken is /jatlh/. So it looks like
while we "say" a story, Klingons "speak" one. I don't think this
prevents thi particular use of /ja'/, as /lut/ isn't its object.
==
Qov - pab 'utlh
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