tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 01 03:27:26 2000
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RE: KLBC: Conversational Klingon Question
- From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: Conversational Klingon Question
- Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 04:29:12 -0700
jatlh DujHoD:
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I just bought Conversational Klingon and Power Klingon. On Side A of
Conversational Klingon, it has a section of words that go in pairs. One such
pair is "good/bad." The translation is {maj}/{qab}. {maj} is an exclamation;
{qab} is a verb. I would have thought that a better pair would be
{QaQ}/{qab}.
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This is the same tape where verb prefixes are called "pronouns". Seriously,
though, <maj> and <qab> do form something of a pair since <qab> can be used
as a sentence all by itself - "it is bad". <qab> can of course do more than
this, but I think this makes it fair to include <maj>/<qab> in the word pair
section.
pagh
Beginners' Grammarian