tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 26 16:36:56 1997
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Re: [proposal] translation for directions.
- From: "Robyn Stewart" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: [proposal] translation for directions.
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 16:36:11 PST
- Organization: NLK Consultants, Inc.
- Priority: normal
Phil wrote:
> Robyn Stewart writes:
>> jajlo' lurgh
>> ram choS lurgh
>> pem bIr Hov lurgh
>> peQ chem lurgh
>
>I'll try to flex my translation muscles,
>
> jaj -> day
> lo' -> use
> lur -> pupil (of eye)
> gh -> ?
> ram -> night
> choS -> twilight
> pem -> daytime
> bIr -> be cold
> Hov -> star
> peQ chem -> magnetic field
Oh, I'm glad you showed your logic, because I can help you a lot
here. Klingon words can look really long and I bet you think half
the time we're just squishing a whole buch of words together. The
secret is: we're not. Over ninety-nine percent of the words I write
contain only ONE Klingon root word. They are augmented by suffixes
and prefixes, but they are NOT composed of separate vocabulary words
attached together. When you look up a word, if it is a verb remove
the prefix, then find the *longest* matching word in the word lists.
So when you are looking up {lurgh}, don't stop when you find {lur}:
keep going until you find {lurgh}. Everything left after you've
found the root word should be a suffix. So look the suffixes up in
the appropriate suffix table. Some of the suffixes are the same as
words, so if you don't do this you'll think {loDpu'} means "man
phaser" not "men."
> I'm running into major problems :( The first is I can't
> translate lurgh, the second is jajlo' and finally I can't make
> sense of the words. Here is what I have so far.
>
> jajlo' lurgh ->
> ram choS lurgh -> night's twilight
> pem bIr Hov lurgh -> daytime's cold star
remember that a verb used to describe a noun goes *after* the noun,
so {bIr} is describing {pem} not {Hov}
> peQ chem lurgh -> magnetic field
Try again, looking up the whole words, not just parts of them.
- Qov
Robyn Stewart [email protected]
NLK Technical Library ph. (604) 689-0344 fax (604) 443-1000
NLK Consultants Inc. 855 Homer Street, Vancouver BC V6B 5S2