tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 20 08:09:33 1996
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Re: KLBC: Statements for book
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>Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 18:34:18 -0800
>From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
>
>may'qal ro' writes:
>>When ghojwI'pu' are ready to qeq SuvmeH (fighting for the purpose of
>>practice) the DevwI' (one who leads/goes before) makes the following
>>statement...
>
>Qo'! moHchu' mu'meyvam DuDlu'bogh! Holmey yIchevtaH!
>
>I refuse to take macaronic Klinglish seriously.
I'm afraid I have to agree with ghunchu'wI'. Macaronic writing can be fun,
and sometimes it works, but with Klingon and English it's particularly
bad. You can sometimes get away with it with say English and French, since
their grammars are fairly similar in many respects, or even on rare
occasion with simple nouns of Klingon in English, but Klingon and English
have such wildly different grammars it really doesn't work. Verbs with
- -meH go in different places in Klingon than their analogues do in English
(in any case, the -meH verb needs to come before qeq), you're using either
a bare verb or noun in place of an English infinitive, which makes no sense
since Klingon doesn't have infinitives, etc. You may be able to get away
with stuff like replacing simple nouns which don't affect the rest of the
sentence, but once you get into verbs and phrases you're in trouble.
Klingon doesn't make good macaroni (though qagh does throw a new light on
vermicelli).
~mark
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