tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 15 16:09:35 2002
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Re: Literature
I keep meaning to translate Arnold Lobel's _Owl at Home_ to get myself
back into the game. Perhaps other people have childhood favorites as
well?
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Christoph PICHLMANN wrote:
> I'm wondering - is there any klingon literature for beginners available?
> Of course I know that several works of Shakespear have been restaured,
> but those make use of the full thesaurus.
> What I am looking for are stories(not necessarily books) that make use
> of simplified grammatics and vocabulary. I guess you know what I mean.
> The point is, although I am trying to understand klingon, I always
> fail at understanding higher sentences because I lack the knowledge of
> words. And there is almost no way to distinguish between a noun-noun
> and a noun-suffix construction unless you know the words for sure.
> (even then it is not always possible - consider the word "Holqoq" - it
> is either the talking robot from "pojwI' " (the program) or a
> so-called language.)
>
> Something like the story of the "QIH" from "pojwI' ".
>
> Christoph
>