tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Sep 17 17:28:25 2000
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Re: KLBC I'm new here
I know not to capitilize the 'ch' my mailing acoun't must have automaticly
capitalized it and I didn't notice. however the rest of you corectins were very
informative, thankyou.
"Stauffer, Tad E (staufte7)" wrote:
> Welcome to the list, charghwIj'a'! I'm taD, the new Beginner's Grammarian.
> It's my
> job to help beginners here with Klingon. As you obviously already know, you
> can add the "KLBC" to your subject line whenever you want me to check your
> work. If you're a little unsure whether you said something properly in
> Klingon, you can also include what you were trying to say, in English. This
> will make it easier for me to make sure that you say what you are trying to
> say.
>
> chargwIj'a' said:
>
> > CharghwIj'a' oH' pongwi'e' I think I did that right?(Cha'w'a' for
> > short) if I didn't please corect me.
> >
> maj. This is a very good start.
> When Klingon is written, the proper capitalization of letters is important.
> For example, the letter {q} is different from the letter {Q}.
> Certain letters are always capitalized, and other letters are never
> capitalized (even when starting a sentence).
> The reason for the unusual capitalization is basically so that you remember
> that the sound is different from the letter in English.
> So, the Klingon letter {ch} always is lowercase, even at the beginning of a
> sentence. And the letter {S} appears as uppercase, no matter where it is in
> a word. The letters and how they are written are listed on pages 13-16 of
> TKD.
>
> There are just a few small typos in your sentence. You forgot a {j} in the
> last word. You want to say {pongwIj'e'} ("my name").
> Also, you miswrote {'oH} as {oH'}. The {'} is a letter just like any of the
> others, so you should be careful you don't put it in the wrong place.
>
> So, the correct spelling of your sentence would be:
> {charghwIj'a' 'oH pongwIj'e'.} (My name is charghwIj'a')
>
> Your Klingon name, {charghwIj'a'}, isn't a grammatically correct word in
> Klingon. However, this is fine, since you can choose whatever name you want,
> and it doesn't have to mean anything.
>
> If you were trying to make it an actual Klingon word, this is what you would
> have to change:
> You're using the noun prefixes {-wIj} and {-'a'}, but {chargh} ("conquer")
> isn't a noun; it's a verb. So you'd want a noun
> Also, {-wIj} is a type-4 noun suffix, and {-'a'} is a type-1 noun suffix.
> When you have more than one suffix on a word, they go in order, from type-1
> up to type-5 for nouns.
> So it would be {____'a'wIj} ("my great/major _____"). For example,
> {yay'a'wIj} ("my major victory").
>
> But as I said, your name can be whatever you want. It doesn't have to be a
> Klingon word. So if you like the sound of {charghwIj'a'}, that's fine.
>
> > I'm new, I have TKD and I've read some of klingon for the galactic
> > travler but I still don't have it all down yet.
> >
> TKD and KGT contain the most information about the Klingon language, so it's
> good that you have them both. The information in KGT basically builds on the
> information given in TKD, so it's ok that you don't know everything in KGT
> yet.
> Also, you can also check out the FAQ for this mailing list and for the
> Klingon language:
> http://higbee.cots.net/~holtej/klingon/faq.htm
>
> - taD
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