Re: Description

["Gina Robertson" <torres213@earthlink.net>]

ok, so now i have:


Gina 'oH pongwIj'e'.  cha'maH ben jIboghpu'.  Doq 'ej wovbe' jIbwIj.  cha'
Saj vIghaj.

"glasses" vItuQ.


----- Original Message -----
From: "DloraH" <DloraH@kli.org>
To: <tlhIngan-Hol@kli.org>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 9:24 PM
Subject: RE: Description


> Klingon is a language.  It has it's own grammar.  We can't simply replace
> the english words with the klingon words but continue to follow english
> grammar.
>
> Klingon sentences are Object-Verb-Subject.
>
> > wIjPong Gina.
>
> -wIj is a suffix.  It goes at the end of the word.
> Sentences need verbs.
> In this case we use what is called Pronoun-as-Tobe.
> 'oH is the pronoun "it".  It can be used as a verb "it is".
>
> Gina 'oH pongwIj'e'  "My name is Gina."
>
> The subject noun following a Pronoun-as-Tobe also has to have the
> suffix -'e' on it.
>
>
> > cha'maH ben jIboghpu'.
>
> good
>
>
> > wIjjIb "brown."
>
> Again with the suffix -wIj, and the word order.
> For "brown" we can say /Doq 'ej wovbe'/
> For a nifty color chart that I made, goto:
>   http://www2.rpa.net/~cheesbro/color.jpg
>
> Doq 'ej wovbe' jIbwIj.
>
> Some people prefer:
>   Doq jIbwIj 'ej wovbe'.
>
>
> > jIghaj cha' Saj.
>
> You have the pets, so the pets are the object; they come before the verb.
> The prefix jI- states that the subject is "I" and that there is NO object.
> To show that there is an object "them" (the pets), we need the prefix vI-.
>
> cha' Saj vIghaj.  -  "I have two pets."
>
>
> > jItuQ "glasses"
>
> We don't have the word for "glasses", altho I sure a couple people will
try
> to give you something to use here, but it would only be long descriptions;
> so you did the right thing to just use the english word.
> One such choice could be /leghmeH jan/, but it's a bit vague and we could
> come up with a few things that fit that description.
>
> But we still need the OVS word order and the correct prefix.
> "glasses" are the object.
> The prefix is "I [to] it",  vI-
>
> glasses vItuQ
>
>
>
> Well, you did good with the vocabulary; and now you have the basic
sentence
> structure.  You wanted a place to start.  You have started.
>
>
> DloraH, BG
>