tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Aug 08 09:31:57 1998
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In Which Qov Fixes Foolish Mistakes Made By Lt. Cdr. Barrows
- From: "Lt. Cdr. Sarah Barrows" <[email protected]>
- Subject: In Which Qov Fixes Foolish Mistakes Made By Lt. Cdr. Barrows
- Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 13:11:19 -0400
Qov wrote:
>---"Lt. Cdr. Sarah Barrows" <[email protected]> wrote:
>It's not KLBC so I should just enjoy and not pick apart, but I want to
>mention:
>>HurDaq vIjaH
>Should be /jI-/ with /jaH/ and with /-Daq/ on the destination. You
>did that a few times, then tricked Qermaq into copying you, in his
>reply. :)
That's one of the mistakes I still make frequently. When I'm speaking I
catch it, but for some reason I miss it while writing. Maybe it was the
effects of the moon ... yeah, that's it! :)
>> naQ 'oH maS.
>This reads, in Morskan /-'e'/-less dialect, "The moon was a staff."
>To say that something "was" something when the something is a verb of
>quality, just /naQ maS/ - "the moon was entire" says what you want to
>say.
I can't explain that. I dunno why I did that. ::shrug:: Thanks for the
correction.
>> maS vImaS.> {{:)>
>'IH maS. pem Hov wov law' maS wov puS, vaj maS wIbejlaH.
qaQochbe'chu'. maS vIbejDI', jIDoghchoH. 'e' vIjatlhpu''a'? :)
>Qov - Beginners' Grammarian
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Lt. Cdr. Sarah Barrows, Starfleet
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Human jIH 'ach tlhIngan tIq rur tIqwIj!
<I may be human, but I've a Klingon heart!>