tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Dec 13 23:04:16 1998
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RE: KLBC:ghojmoH jIH
- From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC:ghojmoH jIH
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 00:02:32 -0700
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lab Ian Wilkinson:
> jIH pong Ian Wilkinson
The way possives like work in Klingon is a set of suffixes: pongwIj - my
name; pu'raj - your (plural) phasers; etc.
The way to translate the verb "to be", as in "my name is", is with a
pronoun - <'oH> in this case. The suffix <'e'> is also added to the noun
after the pronoun. "My name is Ian Wilkninson" would be <Ian Wilkinson 'oH
pongwIj'e'>.
> Sov wej tlhIngan
The <wej> goes at the beginning of the sentence. For the rest of the
sentence, you need to know the basic sentence structure - object verb
subject. You also need to place the proper prefix on the word. TKD has a
prefix table, and since the subject is first person singular, and the object
is third person singular, the prefix you want is <vI->. Finally, the Klingon
language is always referred to as <tlhIngan Hol>, and never just <tlhIngan>.
wej tlhIngan Hol vISov.
> ghaj wej TKD
Very same comments here - <wej TKD vIghaj>. If you want to spell out TKD,
its "Klingon Language Dictionary" or <tlhIngan Hol mu'ghom>.
> Qos
If you want to appologize, try <jItlhIj>. But don't appologize - learn. And
capitalize those <S>'s
> wej Sov pab chut qoj Hol chut.
<pab chut> *IS* <Hol chut> - they are the same thing. And if you get a copy
of the dictionary, you will learn.
> jIH 'Ij nI' poH
I think you are saying "I've lurked for a long time". The "long time" is
well represented by <poH nI'>, but "for a long time" needs a little more.
"While a long time was happening" - <qaStaHvIS poH nI'> does the job. Again
with sentence order and prefixes, <jIH 'Ij> becomes <jI'Ij>.
qaStaHvIS poH nI' jI'Ij.
> vaj jatlh tlhIH
I'm not quite sure what you mean here. <jatlh tlhIH> should be <Sujatlh>,
though - you need to use a prefix on the verb, but you can drop the pronoun.
> (I would not be supprised if this is the worst
> tlhIngan you have ever seen)
No, that comes from Star Trek TV episodes {{:-( Seriously, though, this was
not that bad. If you can get hold of a copy of the Dictionary and some
practice, you really can learn this language.
pagh
Beginners' Grammarian