tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 23 19:24:52 1995
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Re: tlhIj
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: tlhIj
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 95 22:24:49 EST
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Alan Anderson" at Jan 23, 95 7:13 am
According to Alan Anderson:
>
> chargwI' qajatlhneS.
>
> I thank you for your critique. I hope soon to get the hang of complex
> sentences. Simple ones are, well, simple. There doesn't seem to be much
> challenge in saying {HIq SuD}.
Unless, of course, what you meant was {SuD HIq}... The words in
the order you have them form a phrase, not a sentence.
> Actually, fitting the available vocabulary to my
> thoughts _can_ take some effort. For instance, I don't know how to say "ball,"
> so I couldn't say "the ball is red." Maybe {moQ reHmeH Doq}?
Try:
Doq moQ.
Don't worry about "play". It only confuses things.
In general, verbs that can be used adjectivally (like tIn or
Doq) are intransitive, so if they are being used as a sentence,
the noun next to them has to be the subject, so the noun needs
to follow the verb. If the verb is instead being used as an
adjective (or as they call it here, "as an adjectival"), then
the verb follows the noun. It then forms a phrase (a modified
noun) which is then used as you would use any other noun in a
sentence.
I had a hard time with that when I was a beginner.
> mu'meylIj muQuchmoH.
Ummm. Looks like you really need to work on word order. Subject
comes last.
> qhunchu'wI' HIpong.
Is this like that "Call me a doctor" joke?
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> Alan Anderson Delco Electronics
charghwI'
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