tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Oct 07 21:04:55 1997
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Re: KLBC
>Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 21:38:09 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "Brenda weemes" <[email protected]>
I'm literally over 500 email messages behind, so apologies for slow
response.
>nuqneH
>
>1.The Guard tortures the prisoner. avwI� joy� qama .
>2.The prisoner escapes. qama nargh .
>3.The Guard is angry . avwI� QeH .
>4.The Guard kills the prisoner .avwI� HoH qama .
Looks like you have smart quotes or something that's destroying your
apostrophes. Darned computers, trying to help when we want them to leave
well enough alone. Your word-order is off on all these, but I'll leave
that to the BG, who likely has already answered.
>And for the Question
>
>chay' narghlaH gama ? Am Unsure .. I found a Dictionary Online ..but I
>didn't find but cha' - display/show laH =can/able
There is a word "chay'", and -laH is a suffix...
>I couldn't find gama ...
Typo for "qama'".
>and Couldn't Find "the"...
Check the dictionary. Klingon has no word for "the".
>Let me ask a question ... Is the Klingon Language similar to the Sign
>language ASL as for Sentence structure.. ?
This is what I was going to answer, though in the hundreds of messages I
have to read maybe someone already did.
I don't think it's accurate to say that Klingon's sentence structure
resembles that of ASL, at least not as I was taught ASL. ASL's
sentence-structure is somewhat freer, for one thing. ASL is basically
subject-verb-object most of the time, as English is. Sometimes you'll see
subject-verb-subject(repeated) for emphasis, or with a facial expression a
transposition to get object-subject-verb or even object-verb-subject. But
Klingon is strictly object-verb-subject, no alterations, exchanges, or
refunds. It's not easy to compare ASL's structure to that of any spoken
language, anyway. But I'd say in general ASL's sentence-structure is not
the same as Klingon's (and neither is English's).
~mark