tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Dec 26 14:37:11 1996
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RE: Klingon CD-Rom
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Klingon CD-Rom
- Date: Thu, 26 Dec 96 21:51:14 UT
December 25, 1996 9:32 PM, jatlh Edy Fonseca:
> Recently I gave myself the Klingon CD-Rom :))) Two things gave me very
> intriguish. The 1rst one is openning where Gowron speaking in
> tlhingan-Hol. I could understand nothing (I'm a begginer, off course)
Don't worry about it. No one seems to know what he said. It's very badly
done. Still, there are a few recognizable words in it. I hear {SuvwI'}
several times.
> and
> the 2nd one when the Gowron is talking with the Pakled commander and he
> said something to T'Var (to be silent, I think).
Yes. He says (badly, again), {yItamchoH!} It sounds more like *{yItamacha}.
> Other thing, It's quite difficult for me undertand the grammar.
> In English I can say: The World Cup Final Match.
> In Portuguese I say: O Jogo Final da Copa do Mundo.
> Except for the article "The" = "O", the rest of the sentence is totality
> inverse and I have to use 2 prepositions "da" and "do". How can I say it
> in Klingon?
Klingon doesn't have prepositions. When you are referring to possession, such
as "the officer's knife," or "the knife of the officer," the noun which
represents the owner ({yaS} = "officer") comes before the noun of the thing
owned ({taj} = "knife"). Thus, "the officer's knife" is {yaS taj}.
English (and Portuguese I am sure; I don't speak it) uses prepositions for
much of its grammar. For example, I might say "I eat in my room." "In my
room" is a preposition. But Klingon doesn't have them. Instead, special
suffixes and positions indicate the meaning. In this example, the Type 5 noun
suffix {-Daq} is used to indicate the location of the action: {pa'wIjDaq
jISop}.
> Hearing the CD-Rom, it'll be very easy to learn the phonems, because it's
> very similar than portuguese, except "tlh" - this is very gutural and
> very difficult.
Really? Portuguese uses many of these sounds?
> Thank you. (How can I say "thank you" in klingon?)
Literally, it's {qatlho'}. {tlho'} means "thank," and {qa-} is a verb prefix
meaning "I" subject and "you (singular)" object.
However, I wouldn't expect to hear many Klingons running around and saying
{qatlho'} very often. It's not a very Klingon thing to say.
--
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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