tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 24 20:36:22 1996
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Re: Learning Klingon
Fredrik Hacklin (nuqneH) writes:
>Hello!
Greetings!
>I am very interested in learning to speak and write Klingon. I am
>owner of a Kasette that is called Conversational Klingon but it does
>not offer me enough. So now I would like to know a good Dictionary
>from Klingon to English or something like that.
You want _The Klingon Dictionary_ by Marc Okrand, ISBN 0-671-74559-X,
published by Pocket Books. _Conversational Klingon_ is based on the
material presented in that book, and the audiotape _Power Klingon_
gives more information. Another book by Okrand was recently released,
_The Klingon Way_, ISBN 0-671-53755-5, also published by Pocket Books.
_The Klingon Dictionary_ (TKD) is definitely the place to start. It
is the canonical description of tlhIngan Hol as used on this list.
>Oh, and if somebody
>could translate some of his letters in Klingon to english, I would be
>very thankful.
I do occasionally write the same thing both in Klingon and in english,
but the correspondence between the two versions is not always direct.
Most of my posts in Klingon start out that way, and it's usually a big
hassle to restate the idea in english just for the benefit of beginners
who aren't yet able to follow complex Klingon sentences. You'll get a
lot more benefit from translating them yourself anyway; if you can't
understand something, post your best attempt and ask for help.
>By the way, is anybody in this mailing-list also interested in
>Star-Trek or are you just Half-Klingons ?
Some of the subscribers here are *full* Klingons! I'm sure most of us
indeed are interested in Star Trek, but it's not a major focus here.
>Please Mail me personnaly and not the mailing-list!!
Okay, but why? If, as you say, you are "very interested in learning to
speak and write Klingon," you ought to be following the list closely.
>Thankfully yours,
>
>a crazy Star-Trek fan called
>
>Jay Jay
[Put a {'} after each {jay} and you get a pretty strange pseudosentence.
{jay' jay'} is a doubly intensified invective statement with no content!]
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{'IH Degh} -- nice emblem. Do you mind if I copy it?
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj