tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Sep 29 11:31:57 1998
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RE: jIghojtaH
- From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: jIghojtaH
- Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 11:28:55 -0700
lab ghunchu'wI':
>
> Tony jang pagh:
> >> choghItlhqang 'a'
> >> will you write me?
> >
> >There is no space before the <-'a'>. Otherwise this is fine.
> >qaQaHqangtaH.
>
> It's *grammatically* fine, but I don't think Tony meant to ask if
> you'd be willing to mark on him. :-) The Klingon verb {ghItlh}
> doesn't mean everything the English verb "write" can; it refers
> specifically to the process of making marks with a stylus.
I had considered writing a paragraph about indirect objects, but the
message was getting long and I decided to save it for later.
pagh