tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jul 27 07:06:13 1997
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RE: KLBC:Book 1
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From: [email protected] on behalf of Alan Anderson
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 1997 9:33 AM
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Subject: RE: KLBC:Book 1
>But {ghoS} is such a multipurpose word. Using it alone
>for this sentence is extremely ambiguous. {ghoS lupwI'}
>"The bus/jitney is proceeding on course" doesn't imply
>that it's getting closer, or that it will arrive at a specific
>destination, much less that the destination is where the
>speaker is.
>I assume "the vocabulary available" would include the verb
>prefixes? If so, {mughoS lupwI'} "The bus/jitney approaches
>me/us" does a much better job. And if the verb suffixes are
>known, {mughoSlI' lupwI'} is nearly perfect.
All sound advice. However, the TEXT is working on having the student become
familiar with the vocabulary and work at understanding "simple" grammar. It
is NOT a comprehensive look at things.
These issues are handled later in the text book series. Most language courses
start out simple and build up to complexity. The majority of my first year of
spanish dealt only with "present" tense. The approach of Klingon must be
different and USING Glen's textbook series using "similar" approaches to
building on vocabulary and grammar.
The exercise was to translate the sentence into Klingon (The bus is coming.)
They have learned the prefix <mu-> at this point, but the sentence to
translate does not have the object "me" in it. <nu-> has not been covered
which is the ("it/us", "they/us") prefix.
KEN