tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jul 12 12:38:49 1996
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Re: KLBC: Mangaling the Hol!
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Mangaling the Hol!
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 12:23:40 -0500
ghItlh SajQa':
>Human muD vImus
"I hate humans' atmosphere [weather]." Hey, it's not *our* air!
It belongs to the *planet* -- I'd call it {tera' muD}.
><summer> poH jImus jay'
"It times summer; I $#@% hate." The prefix on {muS} should be {vI-},
just like you had it on the previous sentence: "I $#@% hate summertime."
>tuj jay' bep humanpu'
"Humans complain, 'it's $#@% hot.'" Until SuStel pointed out the {qaja'}
example in TKD, I'd have thought this should use the {lu-} verb prefix.
But since you're apparently using {bep} as a verb of saying, I really do
not know whether it actually has an object here.
>humanpu' QuchHa'
"Unhappy humans." If you wanted this to be a complete sentence, the word
order is backwards. Remember, the subject -- the thing actually *doing*
what the sentence is about -- comes at the end of the sentence.
>ghuy'cha! Qatlh Holvam!
"#@%$, this language is difficult!" Difficult or not, it's certainly fun.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj