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RE: Help for someone new!



Thnaks for the help..got a long way to go (cannot understate the obvious!)
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From: "TPO" <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 19:08:15 -0400
To:  <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Help for someone new!


> Hello, I'm DloraH.  I am the current Beginners' Grammarian for this list.
> It's my job to help the beginners.
> 
> > I have been slowly trying to work through  Qo'noS QonoS (jar
> > chorgh) and notice I have a problem right from the start.   I
> > have looked through the dictionary and KGT and cannot find the
> > word wen anyplace.  It doesn't seem to be a noun or verb?  Is
> > this a new word that has been added to the dictionary?
> 
> wen was given to us after KGT came out.  For a complete word list you need
> TKD (The Klingon Dictionary), KGT (Klingon For The Galactic Traveler), and
> the New Words List at the KLI's website:
> /tlh/newwords.html
> 
> wen is a noun, "months ago"
> 
> 
> >                    Also, the first part of the article, ghItlh
> > charghwI' <<qaStaHvIS jar NaQ qonmeH poh...  seems to translate
> > out as :  write not occurring while month wholly record bridge of
> > ship time ..
> 
> Be careful of the spelling (...naQ...poH...)
> I'm not sure where the "not" came from.
> Be sure to read through the first half of the dictionary where is explains
> the basic layout of [object-verb-subject]; and also the explanation of
> suffixes.
> 
> <qaStaHvIS jar naQ> - "While an entire month occurs"
> The verb naQ (whole, entire) is modifying the noun jar.
> 
> <qonmeH poH qech joq Hutlhchugh Hoch> - "If everyone lacks ideas and/or time
> for the purpose of writing..."
> OK, this is a big one.  object-verb-subject (OVS); the verb in the middle is
> Hutlh (lack), and it has a suffix attached to it, -chugh (if); "if they
> lack".  Who is "they"?  Hoch (everyone) is the subject.
> And now for the object; <joq> is the conjunction (and/or) when connecting
> nouns, as opposed to the conjunction <qoj> which is used to connect
> sentences.  The two nouns it is connecting are <poH> (time) and <qech>
> (idea).  When connecting nouns, the conjunction goes at the end of the list
> of nouns being connected.  <qonmeH> is a verb with a suffix.  <meH>, when
> all by itself, is the noun (bridge); but here you see that it is attached to
> <qon>; it is a suffix.  The suffix <-meH> is (for the purpose of...).  <qon>
> is "compose, write, record".  <qonmeH> "for the purpose of composing".  This
> is modifying the noun <poH>, or it could be modifying both nouns <poH> and
> <qech>; in this situation it doesn't change the meaning much whether it
> modifies one or both nouns.  <qonmeH poH> "time for the purpose of
> composing".
> 
> 
> >                                                Of course, if you
> > look in the KLT it could also translate out has having something
> > to do with a ponytail.
> 
> KLT?
> 
> 
> 
> DloraH, BG
> 
> 
> 

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