tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Mar 29 12:25:03 1997
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RE: KLBC:Simple Sentences
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC:Simple Sentences
- Date: Sat, 29 Mar 97 20:17:44 UT
On Saturday, March 29, 1997 12:47 PM, [email protected] on behalf of
[email protected] wrote:
> mugatu muHoH.
> (The mugatu killed me.)
It's spelled (well, pronounced, actually) {mughato'} when it's in Klingon.
If the mugatu did the killing, it's the subject of the sentence, right? As
TKD section 6 tells us, the correct Klingon sentence order is Obj-Verb-Subj.
Therefore, we get
muHoH mughato'
> rIndI nIq thlingan 'IvHoH?
> (After breakfast who killed the Klingon?)
The suffix for "as soon as" is {-DI'}. Capital {D}, capital {I}, and a
glottal stop. All of these are necessary. "Breakfast" is {nIQ}. {tlhIngan}
is spelled with a capital {I}. And once again, we must use correct sentence
order:
rInDI' nIQ, tlhIngan HoH 'Iv?
> rIndI 'uQ thlInganHol vIjathla'?
> (After dinner do I speak the Klingon Language?)
The letter is spelled {tlh}. {tlhIngan Hol} must be two words.
rInDI' 'uQ tlhIngan Hol vIjatlh'a'?
> bIQtIq muHoH.
> (The river kills me.)
Same as the first one:
muHoH bIQtIq.
> bang muHoH.
> (The love kills me.)
muHoH bang.
This is really "The lover kills me." {bang} refers to the person who is
loved, not the emotion of love.
> rIndI 'uQ HIq Dathluthla'?
> (After dinner do you drink wine?)
Except for the misspellings, this is right!
> qamuSHabe' be.
> (I do not love you woman.)
If you're going to use {muSHa'} as "love," you've got to add a glottal stop at
the end of the suffix {-Ha'}. You might also want to add some punctuation to
indicate that you are using direct address (you'd *talk* that way, right?)
And "woman" is {be'}, not *{be}.
qamuSHa'be', be'.
Of course, I'd imagine a Klingon not liking to be so indirect. One might say
qamuS, be'.
> maDamuS.
> (We hate you.)
Do not use more than one verb prefix at a time. There is a verb prefix for
"we" subject and "you" object. Do you mean "you" singular or "you" plural?
pImuS
We hate you (singular).
remuS
We hate you (plural).
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SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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