[178] in tlhIngan-Hol
Odds and Ends
dcctdw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dcctdw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Feb 16 19:19:09 1992
Errors-To: tlhIngan-Hol-request@village.boston.ma.us
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: krankor@IMA.ISC.COM (Captain Krankor)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 92 03:39:21 -0500
In no particular order:
1) Fascinating that nuqneH was invented under duress. That makes sense :)
2) taH is not just the suffix and it does not mean 'to be'. It is given in
the new dict as a separate verb, meaning "continue, go on, endure". Thus,
we do *not* have any implied concept that we can just take any old suffix
and pretend its a verb -- it's more like other cases where we have a
suffix which is the same as a similar word, like -ta' and ta', or -laH
and laH.
3) I have rented some of the movies and gone through them with some care
to pick out the Klingon. I've done I and III, and still need to do V,
and of course, VI. III was very rewarding; the scene between Kruge and
Valkris is spoken clearly and uses fairly easy vocabulary, such that you
can understand it without the subtitles {{:-) It also helps that some
of the lines in III show up in that phrase list in the back of the dict,
so they are familiar {{;-)
4) I caught about half of the Okrand interview on NPR (had trouble finding
the right station). Interestingly enough, he addressed one of our discussion
topics: when asked at the end what a Klingon would say to end the
interview, Okrand replied that in fact, a Klingon wouldn't say anything, he'd
just get up and leave-- and then he got up and left! {{:-) If anybody had
the foresight to record it, I, for one, would like a copy. Or a transcript.
Here's an interesting question: Do Klingons sign their letters? Or do
they just stop writing?
