tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 01 03:53:47 1999
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RE: Rating--WRONG pagh,
- From: "Eric Andeen" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Rating--WRONG pagh,
- Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 03:55:35 -0700
- Importance: Normal
This is *waaaay* off topic, but I am answering in Klingon, which puts it
back on topic.
jatlh C.J. Miller:
> Not true- i stated that 1 would be that a baby would
> require no training, as in it could be on a stranded
> island and learn it.
nIteb nenchoHchugh puq, vaj not Hol ghoj. vavDaj SoSDaj latlhpu' joq
tlhejchugh nenchoHtaHvIS, vaj Hol ghojba'. ghojnISmoH pagh - 'ach Hol
ghojbej.
If a child is stranded on a desert island, he will not learn *any* language.
If he grows up with parents or anyone else, he will learn at least one of
the languages spoken around him. Nobody needs to teach him. That is what
children *do*.
> Also, it is not that hard to learn them, just from
> glancing through a binder of mine with stuff i have
> printed out i have learned some elvish, klingon from
> the KD and the KLI and other languages from that
> binder--just with a mere glance.
Holvam Dalo'laHchu''a'? Hol nov neH bojatlhchugh SoH, latlh je,
SuyajchuqlaH'a'? 'e' vIHonchu'.
Can you really use any of these languages well? Can you hold a conversation
with another person in only that language? I very much doubt it.
Learning a language - any language - well enough to hold a conversation
takes work. Even those who have a natural gift for languages can't learn
another language that is significantly different from their own without
effort.
pagh
Beginners' Grammarian