tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 09 09:34:10 1995
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Re: KLBC flame ing
Nice try. A couple picky details:
According to [email protected]:
>
> To test my friend's email address, i thought i'd send this flame in Klingon:
>
> nuqneH!
>
> tlhIngan Hol DalaDlaH'a'? ghobe'! tera'ngan petaQ QIpbej SoHmo' jay'!
I'm presuming that you know that the last sentence is
incomplete and you wanted it that way.
> vay' vIbuSbe' moHqu'mo' qablij! targhwIj val law' SoH val pus!
I think your comparative construction here is correct, though
~mark often expresses concern about pronouns in comparatives
and we don't have a precise ruling from Okrand yet. I'd let
this one pass for now, recognizing that we might later learn
that this should be handled differently. Oh, and that last {S}
should be uppercase, as well as the {I} in {qablIj}.
> nuchpu' noli' 'ej Hab SoslI' Quch! tera'nganpu' pIcharghlaH SuvwI'pu'ma'!
Spelling: no'lI'
Also, I don't think the {pI-} prefix really works here. "We,
our fighters, can conquor you terans." Maybe if you dropped the
{-ma'} from {SuvwI'pu'}?
> reHqu' tlhIngan wo'!
"The Klingon empire plays a lot."? {-qu'} is a verbal suffix,
so you must be using {reH} as a verb. As such, it means "play",
not "always", which is an adverbial and can't take verbal
suffixes.
> yIHegh
> - DaQtIq
>
> What do you think?
> Qapla'
> - DaQtIq
For the most part, I think you got what you were after.
charghwI'
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