tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu May 23 12:46:17 1996
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Re: KLBC:Name that Song
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- Subject: Re: KLBC:Name that Song
- Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 21:40:14 +0200
At 08:45 PM 5/20/96 -0700, you wrote:
>beHwI"av writes:
>Close: Why do you use an apparent {ngoq}?
Code. Because, as you may of seen, some one correctly named it.
>>Sorry, {ngoq} is not a word that appears in my TDK, or the HolQeD word list.
>
>Look in TKD (not TDK) again, and remember that {ng} is a letter unto itself.
>Words which begin with {ng} are listed after words which start with {n}.
That *@$%* Fek'lhr again, very bad.
>> If I where to use the
>>word {naghHom}, "pebble", in the sentence {jIH naghHom jIHotlh}...,
>
>[This should be {jIHDaq naghHom vIHotlh}]
Yes, because I project it, I should know the prefixes of by heart now.
>>Why, that would make it a one use word and I don't get the feeling that it
>>is a one use word, only projecting images.
>
>Huh? I don't follow what you mean by a "one use word". Would {chap} be
>such a word? {vaQ}? {Say'}? Please elaborate on this complaint. Notice
>also that {Hotlh} has the additional meaning "scan", which goes along very
>well with the "on screen" meaning.
Yeah, I see your point.
>>It would then be imposible, which
>>it already is, for lack of the word against, for a Klingon to form an
>>opinion on any subject pertaining to politics and war.
>
>You've lost me here. How can the fact that {Hotlh} means "put on (screen)"
>and the lack of a direct translation for the preposition "against" (indeed,
>for prepositions in general) have anything to do with politics and war?
I think I may have lost my self in all this "non-conversation" (never mind
it, that is an in joke, it would take far to long to explain, that will be
my next Klingon Language task.)
>[Klingon doesn't have prepositions. You won't find Klingon words that can
>directly translate the english words "in" or "under". You have to use a
>different grammatical tool to express the idea.]
But for "in", revering to places, "In the US..." you can write {*us*Daq}, right?
Qapla'
beHwI"av (Gosh, I'm glad I'm behind the bloke with the rifle.)