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Another newbie, and Monty Klingon's Flying Circus

After I must have been boring the good people at alt.startrek.klingon to
tears with my requests for help in Klingon grammar, I've finally heeded
their advice and subscribed to this newsgroup...

So hi to all, and please be gentle with me.

Erm. Introductions? All right, I'll try to keep it short.
My name is Ulrich (Uli), I'm 25 and study English and German at Tuebingen
University in Germany. I've dabbled in tlhIngan Hol for quite some time
now, but never really very seriously.

This semester, however, I'm doing a linguistics course on "language
learning and the computer". My project partners and myself very quickly
agreed to test the software (which was developed at our university) to the
limits by trying to implement a beginners' Klingon course with it.
To our surprise, our lecturer liked the idea, and now it turned into our
semester project. As a result, I've been catching up a lot on the language
lately. I'm still very much a beginner, so I may write here often with
questions that may seem a little stupid or obvious to the more experienced
among you.

If that's going to bother you, I can also put my questions up at my web
page so the list isn't being flooded, and those of a charitable
inclination can go to my page and have a look. Which way is usually
preferred in here?

Speaking of my web page, I just put my first big translation attempt up
there. Monty Python fans may know it... it's the short "Gumby Brain
Specialist" sketch from "Flying Circus". If you can spare the time, please
go have a look at it and tell me what I did wrong.
(After that, I suppose it's on to the Dead Targ Sketch... "This targ is
no more! It has ceased to be! It has gone to Sto-Vo-Kor! This... is an
ex-targ!")
Sorry. Where was I? Oh, yes. The translated sketch can be found at
http://www.geocities.com/electricmonk.geo/brainspecialist.html (er, and
please don't copy it on any other pages until you see the words "final
corrected version" under the title. Thanks.)

Well, seeing as it's almost 5 a.m. again, I'll stop for now, but I'm
really looking forward to being here more often.

maj ram for now (or should that be maj po at this time?),

Uli

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