tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Nov 01 22:50:15 1997
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Re: KLBC
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC
- Date: Sat, 01 Nov 1997 22:50:05 -0800
At 14:19 97-11-01 -0800, Msala wrote:
}nuqenH hoch !!!
}
} is there a word for "Thank you " in the KL ? I want to say Thank you
} to Dawut , for his extra help .He is helping me master the KL .
There is a verb {tlho'} meaning "thank, appreciate." You need to put a
prefix on it to turn it into "I thank you."
} 1. romuluSngan qamuSHa' ( I don't hate you Romulan)
Actually, this means closer to "I love you Romulan."
The {-be'} suffix is simple negation. The {-Ha'} suffix reverses or undoes
the meaning of the verb. Examples: {Qey} - "it is tight"; {Qeybe'} - "it is
not tight"; {QeyHa'} - "it is loose."
qamuS - I hate you
qamuSbe' - I don't hate you
qamuSHa' - I love you
} 2. lol'Dnal RakTal (RakTal is my Husband)
To say "thing 1 is thing 2" in Klingon we use a special construction.
<thing 2> <pronoun> <thing 1>'e'
loDnalwI' ghaH Raktal'e'.
Notice the correct spelling of {loDnal} and the suffix {-wI'} to indicate
"my husband" and not just "husband."
} 3.romuluSngan rI ! (Hail the Romulan)
For correct High Klingon you need to use the imperative prefix {yI-} to
indicate you are giving a command to do something to a singular object.
romuluSngan yIrI'
I feel I should make a comment about beginners helping each other: it's
great, everyone helping each other is how we as a group got to be this good,
but make sure that you find out/let the person know how much you know. I am
trying to be very careful not to teach you mistakes, but we don't know
everything about this language, and I don't even know everything that is
known about the language, so I am surely teaching some errors. Learn from
the very best speakers you can find, and when you teach others, make sure
they know when you aren't sure what you're saying.
There is one online environment where the resident Klingon expert once
taught everyone some misconceptions, and to this day that place has a
distinctive dialect of tlhIngan Hol, the result of successive generations
misteaching one another.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian