tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 08 06:33:30 1996
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Re: KLBC: vInIDqa' (Re: KLBC: HIboQqa')
- From: [email protected] (Soqra'tIS)
- Subject: Re: KLBC: vInIDqa' (Re: KLBC: HIboQqa')
- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 09:34:03 -0500
Yeee Gads, If'n it's not one thing it's another!
>ghItlh Soqra'tIS:
>>vInIDqa':
>>Eccl. 12:8 lo'lahbe'! lo'lahbe'! ghojmoHwI' jatlh. Hoch'e' lo'lahbe'.
>>
>>bo'olqang'a'
>
>vI'olqangbej 'ach vI'olHa'nIS.
qatlho'neS ghunchu'wI' joH
>The big problem is that your word order is incorrect. A sentence's
>subject must *follow* the verb.
>"The teacher spoke" should be {jatlh ghojmoHwI'}.
>"*All* is worthless" should be {lo'laHbe' Hoch'e'}.
'oy' (Yiddish, not Hol, although....)
>The small problem is that you miscapitalized {H} three times. :-)
HIja', HIja'.... 'e' vISov.
*Shift-key* vIlIjtaH jay'.
*sigh*, HIvqa' veqlargh, jIloy.
vInIDqa':
Eccl. 12:8 lo'laHbe'! lo'laHbe'! jatlh ghojmoHwI'. lo'laHbe' Hoch'e' .
>I also have a nagging suspicion that "preacher" and "teacher" are
>two different concepts in Klingon. To "preach" is more a matter of
>delivering a sermon than causing a student to learn. Remember that
>the root word of "teacher" in Klingon is actually {ghoj} "learn".
>I would say {jatlhwI'}, or {jatlhwI''a'}, or maybe {jatlhchu'wI'},
>depending on my opinion of the speaker.
In this instance, the word {ghojmoHwI'} is what is used in the original,
[Teacher].
As far as "preacher", from what I've seen, one could also use ({SoQ},
{qeS}, or {jach}) + {-wI'}, (modified by {qetlh}, {Doj}, or {QIv}) any one
of which would work equally as well >}};-).
vay' yIHub Hoch 'ej Hoch tIHub vay' - DumaS
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