tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Aug 23 20:09:45 1997
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Re: My intro.
Amanda writes:
> Hi fellow Klingons! My name is Amanda. I just subscribed onto the list
>because a friend of mine, Jenny, told me about it.
pIlajchu'!
> I hope to learn how to put together sentences. Could someone help me?
mu'tlhegh lIngmeH mIw QIj tlhIngan mu'ghom 'ay' jav. yIlaDqu'!
'ej batlh pIQaHqang. tugh Qo'noS ngan QIch rurjaj QIchlIj.
Section 6 of TKD explains this; read it well! And we're all here to help
you learn to speak Klingon like a native. :-)
>Maybe someone can, or already has, put together a summary of the most
>important parts of the dictionary.
Yes, someone has. His name is Marc Okrand. :-) The "most important parts"
of The Klingon Dictionary are the description of the grammar in sections
2-6, and the word lists that make up the other half of the book. Section
1, which describes the spelling and pronunciation, is also useful if you
ever want to *speak* Klingon, as opposed to just writing it. The addendum
is important as well, giving additional vocabulary and suffixes.
Seriously, there's no way you can understand Klingon without knowing the
proper word order as given in section 6. It's possible to use a computer
to translate individual words and separate out the prefixes and suffixes,
but you'll never be able to *write* Klingon that way. You'll eventually
have to learn all of the affixes. It's not quite as hard as it looks...
we *all* started with just TKD and a desire to learn -- and each other.
-- ghunchu'wI'