tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 18 13:18:52 1999
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RE: greetings
- From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: greetings
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:18:49 -0700
Welcome to the list. Looks like you've seen the BG spiel a few times, so I
will skip it.
jatlh S'Qal:
>>>>>
greetings all!
i have been lurking on this mailing kist for several weeks now
reading and collating all your messages into coherent 'intructional
passages' on disk for a while now, so i thought it might be time
for me to at least introduce myself and say hi.
i am marian danzig, kli member #j2006, and live in australia.
i'm afraid i can not speak any klingon as yet, because my
old icelandic and latin lessons are taking up quite a bit of my time (as
well as my other study obligations at uni!) so i won actually be posting
anything more until the new year, when i have graduated, and have some time
to begin learning tlhIngan Hol.
however, i have been thinking about a klingon name for myself.
after a great deal of thought ;-) , i have come up with S'Qal.
it is a 'transliteration' of my nickname, skull (but i used <Q> instead of
<q> cos i thought it looked better on paper).
now, if i understand correctly, this would be pronounced something
like "Sh-ih-krarl" with almost imperceptible pronunciation
of the -ih-, yes?
please correct me if i am wrong. i may change either the spelling or the
whole name at a later date, particularly if i find out what
the klingon word for 'skull' is (hint hint).
>>>>>
Well, your name does not quite match up with Klingon as we know it, but
that's OK. The first syllable - <S'> - does not have a vowel. As you
describe it, you're basically inserting a barely pronounced <I> between the
<S> and the <'>. You could write this as <SI'Qal>, but you could wind up
getting a heavier <I> than you want. If you want a fairly exotic looking
name, like something that came from one of the more culturally distinctive
regions on Qo'noS, then <S'Qal> is pretty cool.
Mark or charghwI' may be interested in commenting on the name thing as well.
We'll see.
We don't have a word for skull. The closest you can probably get is <nach
Hom> - "head bone". Be careful not to confuse it with <nachHom>, though -
that means something like "little head".
>>>>>
to wrap up, i have a question that will get you thinking pagh, and probably
the rest of you as well, ghunchu'wI', chargh'wI' voragh
and the others, as well as sparking responses from peHruS, QuljIb and pI'lo.
heh heh heh. so here goes:
what are the 'names' of the letters in the klingon alphabet? (ie in english
we have 'ay' 'bee' 'see' 'cue' 'ess' 'double-u' 'wy' etc).
most of them for all intents and puposes would be the same, like a, t, y,
etc, but it gets kind of tedious saying 'big q', 'little q', and
'apostrophe' (not to mention 'the t-l-h ligature'!), so do they have names?
and to that fellow that was doing the bible in klingon:
DONT STOP!!!!
i have hamlet in klingon, as well as the obvious stuff like tkd,
kgt, tkw, etc, but the bible would be unreal, as would the iliad.
please keep going.
well, thats me done; next time you hear from will be in a few months
and in klingon!! til then, i'm going back to lurking and reading pI'lo's
very interesting and thought-provoking questions.
S'Qal
>>>>>
The letter name thing has already been discussed pretty thorougly by others.
maj. maSachmo' mataH. DaH tlhIngan Hol QIn yIlab!
Glad you joined - we need to expand in order to survive. Now post some
Klingon!
pagh
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