tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 16 10:31:24 1998
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RE: KLBC--Log
- From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC--Log
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 11:28:18 -0700
lab Kacie Landrum:
>
> I just recently started learning tlhIngan Hol, and I decided
> to keep a log to record my progress. Here's my first entry:
>
> HogH num:
<H> is always capitalized when it is a letter in its own right, but when it
is part of a <ch>, <gh>, or <tlh> combination, it is never capitalized.
I'm not sure what you mean here by <num>. If you mean "week one", that would
be <Hogh wa'>. See TKD section 5.2 on numbers for more.
> *jIHqeq 'ay'wej, "The Klingon Dictionary".
The first correction is pretty simple: <'ay'> and <wej> should be two
separate words, and not stuck together.
The main thing here is the sentence structure. I can see you have not yet
gotten to chapters 4 (verbs) or 6 (syntax) yet. You really need to read both
of these a few times before you can write sentences.
Basic Klingon sentence order is object-verb-subject. You also have to put
the proper prefix on the verb. The prefix matches the person (I vs. you vs.
he/she/it) and number (singular or plural) of both the subject and object.
There is a table on page 33. The proper prefix for your sentence is <vI->,
so what you wind up with is:
'ay' wej vIqeq.
> *jIHmuv tlhIngan Hol ghom.
We generally refer to the mailing list as <jabbI'IDghom>. Your use of just
plain <ghom> is fine, but I wanted you to be aware of the term we use here.
Same comments as above on the sentence structure.
tlhIngan Hol jabbI'IDghom vImuv.
> Lesson One:
> *Practiced Ch. 3, "TKD".
> *Joined <tlhIngan Hol> mailing list.
>
> I am also going to create a self-test for Ch. 3 in TKD
> if anyone would be interested in taking it.
> The name I would prefer for this list would be
> 'storyteller', but I can't find that or an equivalent in
> the dictionary. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
"storyteller" would literally be <lut ja'wI'> - "one who tells stories".
> Qapla'!
pagh
Beginners' Grammarian