tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 24 15:11:13 2000
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RE: KLBC: grammar check
- From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: grammar check
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 16:13:08 -0700
jatlh Angela:
> Hello, help me see if I got this right (i am communicating in a
> game with a non-Klingon speaker, but writing my messages in both
> language as practice)
> jIcheghta'.
> I have returned.
maj.
> vIquvmoHmeH tuqlIj,
> In order that I honor your house,
Sentence order: object-verb-subject. <tuqlIj vIquvmoHmeH>.
> muvwI' HIchaw'.
> allow me to join.
Klingon doesn't really have infinitives ("to join") like English or Spanish.
Instead, you have to say this a bit differently. Klingon has a special
pronoun - <'e'> - that stands in for the previous sentence:
vImuv 'e' yIchaw' - Permit that I join it [your house].
See TKD 6.2.5 for more on <'e'>.
pagh
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