tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun May 17 13:16:18 2009
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Re: Klingon Ad for my new novel!
Doq wrote:
> On May 16, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen wrote:
>
>> ghItlh Doq:
>>> DubtaHba' tlhIngan Hol laHlIj.
>> Clearly your suffix order error has been included as a test.
>>
>> Personally, I don't like N-N-N constructions. They feel clunky to me.
>> I'd have recast this as a complex sentence, thusly:
>>
>> tlhIngan Hol lo'meH Dubba'taH laHlIj.
>>
>> Or something similar. Of course, I am not one of the grammarians,
>> and there may be other errors creeping in that I fail to see.
>
> Good suggestion, though I'd tend to say it one of two ways:
>
> tlhIngan Hol Dalo'meH Dubba'taH laHlIj.
>
> Dubba'taH tlhIngan Hol lo'meH laHlIj.
Now that I think about it, I seem to remember that canon has /Dub/ used
transitively.
tlhIngan Hol laHlIj DaDubba'taH.
In any case, your first sentence doesn't work because your ability
doesn't improve so that you can speak Klingon; your "ability for
speaking Klingon" improves.
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David Trimboli
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