tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 10 06:48:43 1997
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Re: KLBC : Nemo repente fuit turpissimus
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC : Nemo repente fuit turpissimus
- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 97 13:23:43 UT
[email protected] on behalf of Norman Thomas wrote:
> Do I wait until after Sunday for comment on the subject line?
I don't know what it means, so I can't comment on it.
> > toH! "parakeet" ghajbogh loD'e' vISovpu'. loDvaD "Angel" ponglu'!
> > ("parakeet" pong vIqawbe'.)
> loD ghap be' wuqDI "parakeet" : [How can I express after six months -
> in a separate sentence]
"As soon as a parakeet decides on either a man or a woman."
When you use noun conjunctions, the conjunction comes after the last noun.
{loD be' ghap} "either a man or a woman."
{-DI'} has a glottal stop after it.
qaSpu'DI' jav jar
As soon as six months had occurred
What did you mean by this sentence?
> "blue" mojDI "cere" loD mojDI "parakeet"
"As soon as the parakeet becomes a man as soon as cere becomes a blue"
Huh?
> : "angelo" moj pongwI'Daj.
You've got two Type 4 noun suffixes on {pong}. Either that, or you're using
{-wI'} on the *verb* {pong}, in which case you're talking about "his namer
becomes Angelo." What do you mean? Please include an English translation so
I can help you.
> "brown" mojDI "cere" be' mojDI "parakeet" : "angela" moj pongwI'Daj.
> The cere is the bit of skin above the beak where the nostrils are :
> sorry I didn't even try this last part in Klingon - my short attention
> span.
We don't have a word for "beak," but I'll use {nuj} "mouth":
nuj DungDaq tlhonDaq je DIr 'ay' tu'lu'. DIrvamvaD "cere" ponglu'.
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SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian