tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Dec 01 14:09:38 1996
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RE: KLBC:jIH'Iw
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC:jIH'Iw
- Date: Sun, 1 Dec 96 21:17:22 UT
December 01, 1996 7:14 AM, jatlh loDDoq:
> SuStel jatlh,
> bISung naDev.
> SoHghaj batlh.bIQagh not.
> Did I just wrote what I wanted to?
> roj je Qapla' ,
Er, no. But let's work on that!
You need to remember that Klingon sentences work in the order
Object-Verb-Subject. In English we say "The officer sees the child," but in
Klingon we say {puq legh yaS}.
Locative nouns (with {-Daq} or {-vo}) go before the object noun.
Adverbials go before the object, of before any locative nouns.
Timestamps (adverbial referring to time) tend to come first in a phrase.
Please include English translations of what you meant until you become more
certain of how to say things.
So:
> SuStel jatlh,
"SuStel spoke" or "SuStel says" needs to be {jatlh SuStel}.
> bISung naDev.
Are you trying to say "You are a native here"? {Sung} is a noun. And {naDev}
is a locative noun (a special case; it never uses {-Daq}). I has to come
first. To say "You are a native here," say
naDev Sung SoH.
See TKD section 6.3 to see how I did this "to be" construction.
> SoHghaj batlh.bIQagh not.
I believe you're trying to say "You have honor. You never make a mistake." I
wish it were true!
"You have honor" can be translated in LOTS of ways. One of my favorites is
batlh bIvang.
You *almost* got "You never make a mistake" right. The only problem is that
the adverbial {not} has to come first.
not bIQagh.
> roj je Qapla' ,
"Peace and success." Not a very Klingon thing to say, but no matter!
When talking about more than one noun, you use the conjunction {je}. You have
done this, but you have also misplaced it. It always comes *after* the last
noun in the list. So, "Peace and success" is
roj Qapla' je.
Note however that the *sentence* conjunctions {'ej}, {qoj}, and {pagh} come
*between* sentences. This is different than the noun conjunctions.
qaStaHvIS jar law'qu' jabbI'IDghomvaD jIjeS.
'ach rut jIQagh.
puptaH pagh.
batlh tlhIngan Hol DaghojtaH.
maj.
tugh tlhIngan Hol DajatlhtaHvIS bIpo'.
not yIjegh!
--
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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