tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Sep 06 19:25:25 1997
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Re: KLBC: *chat-room* tu'lu''a' ?
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: *chat-room* tu'lu''a' ?
- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 19:25:20 -0700 (PDT)
At 03:14 PM 9/6/97 -0700, muHwI' wrote:
>Is there a private or public klingon chat-room where we can
>speak in klingon through AOL? What about "making" one?
>I noticed there are many AOL-members here...
*AOL* vIlo'be'mo' jIjanglaHbe'.
>chay' *chatroom* mughlu'
>[how is chatroom being translated?]
>
>*chat* vImughchugh vaj {jaw} vIjatlh
>[if I translate "chat" then I say {jaw}]
jaw jIjatlh - The thing said is not the object of the verb of saying.
>*room*vaD {pa'} vIpong
>[for "room" I call it {pa'}]
"For the purpose of the room I call/name {pa'}."
Try {*room* vIpongmeH pa' jIjatlh} "I say {pa'} to name the room.
>mu' *jawpa'* QaQ'a'
>[the word *jawpa'* is it good?]
QaQ'a' mu' *jawpa'*.
Verb --- Subject
ghobe'. DIpqoq DachenmoHmeH DIp wot je Datay'moHchugh bIpabbe'. Dap 'oH.
No. You are not following the rules of grammar if you put a verb and a noun
together to make a 'noun'. It's nonsense.
You could say {jawmeH pa'}.
>latlh mu'mey wIghaj'a'
DIghaj'a' - plural object
Qov ([email protected])
Beginners' Grammarian