tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat May 25 09:45:46 1996
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Re: Learning Klingon
- From: daan van kooten <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Learning Klingon
- Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 18:43:24 GMT
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>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.
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>_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?
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>-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj
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Greetings
I am K' tulu
I am also an avid STTNG fan
Lots of Klingon action there }}:-)
I have just bought the CD ROM pack Startrek Klingon
Check it out it rules!
Qapla'