tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 29 18:44:35 2001
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Re: KLBC: Grammer questions
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Grammer questions
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:44:47 -0800
lab qonwI'
> I had some questions about grammer:
povwI'mey bIH. jang 'e' tIv *taD.
[They are excellent ones. taD will enjoy answering them.]
> Also, could someone maybe ask me some questions or something that I could
> answer in Klingon? That'd be good practice for me. : )
I'm going to give you some translation exercises to do. I know that's less
creative than questions, but I find questions lead beginners to attempt
constructions that don't exist. With translations I can be sure that ther
eis a way to do what you want to do. These are not trivial. I gave you
hard ones because I think you can figure them out. I expect you to
carefully research each one in TKD. You shouldn't have to guess how to do
the constructions, you should be fairly sure that you have found the right
way.
It is said that tribbles can navigate perfectly.
In order to test that theory, we placed forty tribbles on the starship.
The tribbles refused to cooperate.
This situation frustrated us.
If you saw us pleading to the tribbles, you would laugh.*
Those stupid tribbles would frustrate you, too.
Before the experiment ended, we had seven thousand tribbles.
We could not find one tribble that could calculate a parallel course.
Ferengis are smarter than tribbles.
* Don't worry about the subjunctive. Klingon doesn't seem to miss it.
Translate it as "if you see us pleading to the tribbles, you laugh".
Once you get in the groove you can describe further experiment in tribble
intelligence.
Qov