tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 09 09:02:46 2003
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Re: yu' jIghaj...
- From: Elijah Ravenscroft <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: yu' jIghaj...
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 08:47:28 -0500
good question! would you use the law'/puS construct, and if so, how? if
not, what's preferable?
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 08:08:00 +0100 (BST) =?iso-8859-1?q?James=20Copeman?=
<[email protected]> writes:
> I thank you for your corrections and understand them, just stupid
> mistakes while I was writing quickly.
>
> What I was actually trying to say was, "I speak German, but my
> English is better" How do you get a sense of one thing being better
> than something else in German, is there a suffix I can add to /QaQ/
> to make it /QaQ/er or litterally am "gooder"?
>
> Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
>
> >*German* Hol jIjatlh! 'ach *English* HolwI' QaQ.
>
> Say, rather:
>
> *Germany*ngan Hol vIjatlh! 'ach QaQ *England*ngan HolwIj.
> "I speak German! But my English is good."
>
> qeraq, see if you can figure out my corrections.
>
> Note: Most people use {DIvI' Hol} Federation Standard (lit. "the
> Federation's language") for English, even though they're not
> necessarily
> the same thing.
>
> *Germany*ngan Hol vIjatlh! 'ach QaQ DIvI' HolwIj.
> "I speak German! But my Federation Standard is good."
>
> Also, others will often clip language names like {*Germany*ngan Hol}
> to
> just {*German* Hol} to save typing.
>
>
>
> --
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
>
>
>
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