tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 10 21:09:07 1997
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RE: Glen's wordplay (was "RE: Word Origin Speculation II")
- From: "Kenneth Traft" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Glen's wordplay (was "RE: Word Origin Speculation II")
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 97 05:05:02 UT
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From: [email protected] on behalf of Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen
Sent: Monday, February 10, 1997 7:08 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Glen's wordplay (was "RE: Word Origin Speculation II")
>others
>like "dictator" make me want to wait around for Glen to start blaming that
darn
>striking Feklahr.
Has he ever? Kahless knows he's been wrong a few times. He may admit the
mistake, but he more apt to ignore it and pull out 50 other things.
>I may be mistaken in this, but I believe that this is probably Glen's main
>point. His teaching style in the past has stressed forming meaningful
>associations between Klingon vocabulary and similar sounding/meaning words in
>English (and other languages). And this technique works very well for many
>people. Sometimes I think Glen carries it a bit too far, but that's maybe
just
>a personal judgment call.
Glen is STRONGLY into mnemonics (he calls them qawQaH -- acutally a word I
<MADE UP> for his language primer.) Sometimes his suggestions are I believe
"bit too far", but they did help me to remember. There are two I find myself
using alot:
qaSpa' (before) -- Imagine a <cash pot> with a <beef steak> on top of the
money.
rInDI' (after) -- Imagine a <reindeer> with his antlers stuck in the
<rafters>.
Indeed "a bit too far", but it worked for me.
One really bad one that continually shake my head at is:
Da- (you) -- Imagine <Dagwood> wearing a sweatshirt from the <"U"> which he
attended.
They are helpful, especially when your in the early stages of learning.
Lawrence
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