tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jun 28 12:03:09 1998
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Re: KLBC: not once, not twice...
- From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: not once, not twice...
- Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 12:05:04 -0700 (PDT)
---Quvar muHwI' <[email protected]> wrote:
> We know the suffix {-be'} "not", which is a Verb
> suffix.
> e.g. {qaleghbe'} "I do not see you"
>
> Is there a way to use this with nouns ("not your
> dog") or even other words
> ("not once")?
Good question. It was my inability to say "I am not a Klingon" that
stopped my initial efforts to study Klingon. Negating a to be
sentence (which is what "negating a noun" is) is done be putting the
suffix on the pronoun. In pronoun as to be sentences (PTB), the
pronoun takes verb suffixes. This is written in section 6.3, but I
missed the significance when I started.
"Spot is not your targ."
targhlIj 'oHbe' Spot'e'.
> I came up with this idea with the song "Degh" which > ends with
> *mu'vaD [...] maQam. wa'loghbe', cha'loghbe' 'ach
> wejlogh*
> "We stand up for (our) word(s) [...] not once, not
> twice but thrice"
No. That doesn't work at all.
> Or should it only be {wa'logh maQambe'} etc ?
Quite right. If you need to shorten it you could use a question and
answer format, "wa'logh? Qo'! cha'logh? Qo'! wejlogh? HISlaH!."
You can chop Klingon into partial sentences for the sake of natural
speech or for a song, but they must be partial *Klingon* sentences,
not partial English ones.
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