tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jul 12 12:27:08 1997
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Re: KLBC: pongwIj nuq?
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: pongwIj nuq?
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 97 18:29:31 UT
[email protected] on behalf of [email protected] wrote:
> 1. SarI' - my I use that as a greeting?
You may *use* anything you like; {SarI'} means "I hail all of you." However,
Klingons don't tend to use greetings. They just get down to business. Since
I'm reading a message from you, of *course* you are hailing us!
> (are there really no greetings in Klingon? How do they greet their best
> friends?)
They might see each other and call out their names, grab their arms, embrace,
or just head-butt each other. A greeting needn't use words.
> 2. KLI = tlhIngan Hol DuSaQ ?
Klingon Langauge Institute
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD
({yejHaD} from HolQeD 4:4 and reprinted in HolQeD 5:4)
> 3. qu'Sar 'oH pongwIj'e'. (by adding two random words), and I added "muHwI'
"
> to it,
> to make it sound stronger. Should I put it in front or behind "qu'Sar" ?
> should I change my name or is it fine?
Your name can be whatever you want it to be. If you like being called that
name, then by all means keep it. See the FAQ on the section concerning names.
http://www.thomtech.com/~dspeers/klingon/faq.htm
As for {muHwI'}, it sounds like it might count as a rank, like {HoD} or {joH}.
Perhaps it would go at the end
qu'Sar muHwI'
> 4. how do you translate Dajonlu'pa' ?
> you-it-before-one-capture ?
When you use the Type 5 verb suffix {-lu'}, the meaning of the verb prefix
changes. See TKD section 4.2.5.
"Before someone captures you."
"Before you are captured."
--
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
Stardate 97529.8