tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 11 15:16:09 1997
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RE: Qapla' jIchu'
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Qapla' jIchu'
- Date: Sat, 11 Jan 97 20:03:54 UT
January 11, 1997 9:58 AM EST, jatlh loQeH:
> Hello everybody. I'm new to this list.
Hi! I'm SuStel, the list's Beginners' Grammarian. If you've got any
questions of a grammatical nature, or would like to direct your Klingon posts
at other beginners, please add "KLBC" to the subject line of your messages.
If the letter is KLBC, pay attention; it is focused on beginner-level stuff.
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Be sure to check out the FAQ!
> (please note that "loQeH" is my attempt at making a reasonable Klingon
> spelling for the swedish pronounciation of "Loke" which is my IRC
> handle)
Really? I don't speak Swedish. How do you get the {H} sound in there? And
is the {Q} really that hard for your "k"? If I had seen it without the
pronunciation guide, I'd have thought it rhymed with "Coke."
> loQeH vIpong'egh
When you use {-'egh}, the prefix must indicate "no object," and I don't think
there can *be* an object. We have another way to say this, discovered on one
of the Star Trek SkyBox cards: {jIHvaD *loQeH* vIpong}.
> De'wI'jonwI' jIH
I understand this, although I probably wouldn't combine the nouns {De'wI'} and
{jonwI'}. Too many nouns strung together can become confusing, especially
when the meaning is much clearer when they're separate: {De'wI' jonwI' jIH}.
> tlhIngan Hol vIjatlh 'e' vIchu'
"I am new that I speak Klingon." {chu'} either means "be new" or "activate."
Neither one works here. "Be new" describes a quality, and it can't really
take an object. You cannot say {Duj vIchu'} for "I am new the ship," right?
And "I activate that I speak the Klingon language" doesn't make much sense
here either.
There's a verb suffix that will do this particular thing for you: {-choH}
"change." {tlhIngan Hol vIjatlhchoH}. "I begin to speak the Klingon
language."
--
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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