tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Mar 07 16:33:20 1997
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Extra stuff qororvo'
- From: Marian Schwartz <[email protected]>
- Subject: Extra stuff qororvo'
- Date: 07 Mar 97 19:31:47 EST
nuqneH. qoror here. I've been on a camping trip the past week, so sorry
for not responding quickly. I have some more ideas.
wa') We all know that the apostrophe in Klingon is a consonant of its
own. But "apostrophe" is a clumsy word.
Four syllables and ten letter, and sometimes if we want to spell something out
(for instance, to show the difference between SeHlaw, control panel, and
SeHlaw', he/she seemingly controls it), it's very difficult. But I have a
solution, and if you don't want to use it, fine, but I'm going to use it. How
about saying "pip?" Three letters, one syllable, and I've never heard it said
except in the UK. (It might not be used there now, so if that's true, apologies
to UK members.) If it isn't used anymore that makes it even better -- you'll
never confuse it for something else. If you don't know, "pip" means "seed,"
such a "a pomegranate pip." The apostrophe in Englist looks a bit like a seed.
It doesn't in the font that I use ('), but it is in TKD, for instance. This
might help some of you. Once again, if you don't want to use it, fine, you
don't have to, but I think I will.
cha') How about "yI-" at the beginning of a verb and "'a'" at the end?
It sounds ungrammatical, I know, & it probably is, but there's nothing against
it in TKD (at least, from a quick glance, so somebody might prove me wrong) and
it says in the introduction that Klingons are never completely grammatical, so a
fruity translation of yIruch'a' might be "Will you or will you not go ahead?!"
with special emphasis. I can't do italics with my email, but I mean to.
wej) We know that "naDev," "pa'," and "Dat," are nouns, and basically
mean "the area around here," "the area around there," and "all places," but they
functiion pretty much as adverbs, without -Daq and at the beginning of the
sentences, and meaning "here," "there," and "everywhere." Okay, a bit weird,
but fine. Now, however, I have realized some adverbs in tera'ngan Hol that take
articles, and in fact don't work the same way without the articles! Ready? "A
lot" and "a bit," in such sentences as "he sleeps a lot," and "he works a bit."
How's that?
--qoror