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Re: KLBC: vInIDqa' (Re: KLBC: HIboQqa')



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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