[1612] in tlhIngan-Hol
mI'QeD ngerwIj gholpu'vaD jIjatlh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Oct 7 00:42:30 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
From: DSTRADER@delphi.com
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1993 00:31:36 -0400 (EDT)
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Ok, fine. I understand that this theory (as useful as everyone has
admitted it to be) is absolutely not official. I myself wouldn't
make use of it in any sort of publication in which it would not be
understood in the slightest bit by the readers. But I figure, from
what I've seen on this list, if I get {-vI'} on the road to officialdom
I can expect major support; a lot of us would like a suffix like that
and -vI' fits that purpose. Only that it is not an Okrandian endorsement
is the basis for the opposing argument. But until this information at
least reaches a larger audience, I'll keep it inside this list.
'oy'!! Qu'vatlh! ghuy'cha'!! mu'aw'ta' ghew jay' Dochvam vIghItlhtaHvIS!!
Sorry 'bout that..(QIt Heghjaj ghew QIp)
Ok, what else.. Oh, yeah. In my last message, I wrote a "P.S." and labeled
it {ghItlh 'o'}, Klingon for "postscript." Well, laibow@brick.purchase.edu
ruined my fun and told me it should be {'o' ghItlh}. I'm afraid not, laibow.
Here's the way I see it: 'o', which means "aft," is one of those position
words like retlh, joj, or bIng. It means "area behind." It does not, as far
as I'm concerned, have to mean the back of a ship (the specific meaning
of "aft" in English), but the back of anything. In the case of ghItlh 'o',
it is the back or end of the writing. Translate it as "the writing's
behind-area." To complete the picture, {'et}, "fore," could similarly
mean "area-in-front."
E.g., {qach 'o'Daq jIyIt 'ej qach 'etDaq bIqet}
"I am walking behind the building and you are running in front of it.
Or maybe if I don't want to repeat qach, I could say,
{qach 'o'Daq jIyIt 'ej 'etDajDaq bIqet}. Either way; it doesn't matter.
'et = front
'o' = back
ghoHqang 'Iv
Guido#1 signing off ---*
