tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Dec 07 21:54:03 1997

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At 11:42 97-12-07 -0800, 'olIva wrote:
}On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Qov wrote:
}> If you know fifty words of vocab and can construct simple OVS sentences with
}> them you will know enough Klingon to carry on conversations at qep'a'.
}
}tlhIngan Hol mu'mey vIyajbogh law' cha'vatlh tlhIngan Hol mu'mey puS. 'ach
}naDev puSqu' tlhIngan Hol mu'tlheghmey vIyajlaHbogh! jIghojtaHnIS.

You have neglected to put a verb into the law'/puS contruction.  You'd have
to say {X law' law' Y law' puS} to say that X is more numerous than Y.
bIghojnIStaH.  (Watch suffix order).

teH.  'ach DuQoyDI' ghot, mu'tlheghmey nap jatlhqangchoH.
True.  But when a person hears you he will be willing to speak simple sentences.

Learn those affixes inside out.  

Qov     [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian                 



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