tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 04 06:14:25 1994
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Re: Email Klingon Course
Qobvo':
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> I think a cool way to introduce Hol to people would be a set of
> lessons teaching the language through mu'qaD veS. The first lessons
> would teach the canon mu'qaDmey - how to say them, what they mean,
> when to use them. Subsequent lessons would introduce the idea of
> altering the existing curses by changing nouns, then verbs, teaching
> grammar and vocabulary that way. Pretty soon the student will figure
> out how to say OTHER things besides curses.
I'm not sure I care for this at all. It doesn't really teach the
*grammar*; it only teaches "here is a Klingon phrase; this is what it
means." Although this has it's uses, if someone is really serious about
learning Hol, teaching it to them this way is *ahem* an insult. {{:)
> Klingon Invective and YOU!
[deletia]
> petaQ: possibly from pe' (to cut) and taQ (to be weird), with
> a supposed meaning of "weird cutter"; or, a command,
> from pe- (second person plural imperative) and taQ,
> meaning "You all are weird".
[simialr comments on the curses deleted]
*sighs* *EVERYONE* tries to do this. *I* tried to do this. The thing
is, although *our* curses have "meanings"... who says THEIRS have to? Or
if they do, who says they have to have anything to do with what we
already have? For all we know, they may be comprised of homonyms whose
roots we don't have yet.
So this doesn't work. Nice idea... but it doesn't work.
Just my 2 credits.
> ... May you recieve a vision of Kahless--collect.
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>
Heh! 'e' vIparHa'qu'!
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