tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 16 11:04:15 1997
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RE: KLBC: First Sentences-Pretty good if I say so myself!!
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: First Sentences-Pretty good if I say so myself!!
- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 97 17:34:44 UT
On Saturday, March 15, 1997 8:48 PM, [email protected] on behalf of
[email protected] wrote:
> Are these sentences correct?
For posts like this one, please remember to put KLBC in the subject line.
> thlIngan-Hol vIjathl.
> I speak the Klingon Language.
The letter is not spelled *{thl}, it's {tlh}. It's tough to read the
backwards letters.
The Klingon Language is spelled {tlhIngan Hol}. There is no hyphen "-". It's
only spelled with one for the list address because that address cannot have a
space as one of its characters.
Otherwise, this is correct.
> thlIngan-Hol vIjathl'a'
> Do you speak the Klingon Language.
If it's "do YOU speak the Klingon language," you must use the correct prefix:
{Da-}.
tlhIngan Hol Dajatlh'a'?
> thlingan-Hol Dajathlbe', vIyaj
> I understand, you don't speak the Klingon Language.(Do I need the comma, or
> would it be I understand THAT you don't...)
Exactly, it comes out as "I understand THAT you don't speak Klingon." The
word for this kind of "that" is {'e'}. See TKD 6.2.5.
Otherwise, you're okay here.
tlhIngan Hol Dajatlhbe' 'e' vIyaj.
> chomuSHa''a', vIyaj
> I understand that you do not love me.
Don't add {-'a'} here. You can't ask a question and then say you understand.
Add {'e'} again.
In Klingon, the word for "hate, detest" is {muS}. If you mean "I understand
that you hate me," you get
chomuS 'e' vIyaj.
If you mean "I understand that you love me," you get
chomuSHa' 'e' vIyaj.
A possible way to say "I understand that you do not love me" is
chomuSHa'be' 'e' vIyaj.
> raQ maghos'vo'
> We go from the camp.
{-vo'} is a noun suffix, and must be put on the noun being left. Otherwise,
you're correct (but capitalize that {S}!).
raQvo' maghoS.
> rInDI' nIQ HIq vIthlutlhbe'
> After breakfast I don't drink alchohol.
maj! If that {tlh} were spelled correctly, this would be perfect!
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SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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