tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 24 01:43:08 1995
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Re: The `Ring Rhyme' in Klingon
On Tue, 23 May 1995, Karl Dyson wrote:
> Sometime [email protected] said..
> Perhaps if I had a better understanding of Klingon phonology then I would't
> make such mistakes.. therefore someone should point out how the damn thing
> works in the first place.
All Klingon words in TKD consist of these syllables:
CV, CVC, CVrgh, CVw', CVy' or -oy. (C = consonant, V = verb)
jabbI'ID: CVC-CV-CVC
maghoSchoHmoHneS'a': CV-CVC-CVC-CVC-CVC-CVC
> > They would; they are not willing to die, but they must.
> > {Heghqangbe' 'a HeghnIS}.
> Perhaps they must, and perhaps someone else needed them to die but I can't
> see why *they* needed themselves to die. Afterall, if they all died then who
> would fight the orks? Perhaps the elves.. but who's to say that they
> wouldn't lose without the humans..
Type 2 verb suffixes indicate how much choice the subject has about the
action described or how predisposed the subject it to doing it. {-nIS}
does not indicate that there is any volition involved, but rather, one is
compelled to do something.
In this example, Eru, or the Valar, has doomed men to die. Unlike Elves,
Men were givin a finite lifespan. Men don't have a choice in the
matter. Without exception, every one of them dies. Death is alternately
called the Gift of Men or the Doom of Men. Because it is their inevitable,
inescapable, preordained fate that they must die, HeghnIS chaH.
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