tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Sep 14 08:56:58 2002
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Re: Description
- From: "Steel Rat" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Description
- Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 08:42:32 -0500
justin 'oH pongwIj'e'
nice to meet you.
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Original Message
From: "Gina Robertson"<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Description
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 09:13:31 -0700
>ok, so now i have:
>
>
>Gina 'oH pongwIj'e'. cha'maH ben jIboghpu'. Doq 'ej wovbe' jIbwIj. cha'
>Saj vIghaj.
>
>"glasses" vItuQ.
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>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "DloraH" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>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
>>
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>
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