tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 20 05:09:43 1996
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RE: jIlIH'eghqa'
- From: Mitchell Ross <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: jIlIH'eghqa'
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 08:12:21 -0400
I missed a line in my cut-and-paste last time:
jIlIH'eghqa'
I'll introduce myself again.
>>> wa'wIj qab
>>> My first was bad. ("first"??)
>>
>>wa'DIch = First
>
>[Simply giving a word without explanation, or at least a reference to
>more information, is not all that helpful to a beginner, Perry. We
I'll take what I can get. :) Any and all help is appreciated!
>TKD section 5.2 discusses numbers. At the bottom of page 54, the number
Another case of "my TKD wasn't near by at the time".
>so it's probably safer to use a noun to indicate, for instance, that one
>is referring to {paq wa'DIch} "the first *book*", or {lojmIt wejDIch}
>"the third *door*".
chaq:
qab much wa'DIch
(I may be wrong in stretching "much" to mean "introduction")
>There's another problem that almost all of Mitchell's sentences exhibit:
>their word order is wrong. The correct order of a simple Klingon sentence
>is OBJECT-VERB-SUBJECT. The beginning of TKD chapter 6 describes the basic
I was lousy in English in school, and now it's comming back to haunt me... ;)
OK, time for remedial grammar 101. Let's do an autopsy on one of my attempts:
jIlegh DI Dat!
The verb is clear enough: "legh". I was writing these as if "rubble" was the subject. I take it that "I" is the subject. There's no seperate noun, just a prefix. How about this:
DI Dat jIlegh!
I'm not sure of the "DI Dat" part. I'm not far along enough to know the rules for multiple nouns in a sentence, so I just packed them in there. luja'? Qapla'a'?
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