[289] in tlhIngan-Hol
need help with .sig file
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Apr 30 14:25:29 1992
Errors-To: tlhIngan-Hol-request@village.boston.ma.us
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: ghunwi' <broberts@uafhp.uark.edu>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 12:23:42 CDT
Reply-To: broberts@uafhp.uark.edu
In response to the following msg. I have enclosed what I take as the translatio
nof my .sig file. Any grammarians (or others) are welcome (and encouraged) to
send me corrections/deletions/additions. thank you muchly,
Bruce Roberts
>Message-Id: <19920429175005.7.ACW@PALLANDO.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
>From: Allan C. Wechsler <ACW@RIVERSIDE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
>Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1992 13:50-0400
>Subject: Signature
(stuff deleted)
>OK, I know this is just a sig and I shouldn't take it too seriously.
>But I'm having a lot of trouble with the vocabulary here. The first
>sentence just means "Do you speak Klingon?" but the second escapes me.
>If I assume that the apparent imperatives are really intended to be
>declarative, then I guess that something like "If you really want to
>learn Klingon and are willing to civilize yourself..." was intended, but
>it's so full of typos like "quong", "quetl", "gach", that it's hard to
>tell what's really going on. Also I think that you meant "'ej" and not
>"je". Can you clarify?
(what follows is my .sig.explain file)
|========================================================|
| > tlhIngan Hol Dajatlh'a' |
| > tlhIngan Hol yIghojnISqu' yItay'eghquongchugh |
| je quetlhgach yIneHbe''eghchugh |
| > Qapla' |
|========================================================|
| Bruce F Roberts | |
| ( ghunwI' ) | > vita'pu'be' |
| broberts@uafhp.uark.edu | |
|========================================================|
|========================================================|
| > Do you speak Klingon? |
| > If you don't want to be dull and you are willing |
| to be civilized, you must learn Klingon! |
| > Success! |
|========================================================|
| Bruce F Roberts | |
| ( programmer ) | > I didn't do it! |
| broberts@uafhp.uark.edu | |
|========================================================|
pronominal type 9
noun noun prefix verb verb suffix
| | | | |
tlhIngan Hol Da- -jatlh- -'a'
| | | | |
Klingon | | to speak |
| | (interrogative)
| you-him/her/it/them
|
language
i.e.: Do you speak Klingon?
pronominal type 2 rover
noun noun prefix verb verb suffix verb suffix
| | | | | |
thlIngan Hol yI- -ghoj- -nis- -qu'
| | | | | |
Klingon language | | need (emphatic)
| to learn
|
imperative: you-him/her/it
pronominal type 1 type 2 type 9
prefix verb verb suffix verb suffix verb suffix
| | | | |
yI- -tay- -'egh- -quong- -chugh
| | | | |
| | oneself willing if
| |
| to be civilized
|
imperative:you-him/her/it
phrase
conjunction verb nominalizer
| | |
je quetlh- -gach
| |
and to be dull
pronominal rover type 1 type 9
prefix verb verb suffix verb suffix verb suffix
| | | | |
yI- -neH- -be'- -'egh- -chugh
| | | | |
you want not oneself if
i.e.: If you don't want to be dull and you are willing to be civilized,
you must learn Klingon!
type 9
verb verb suffix
| |
ghun- -wI'
| |
| one who is / one who does
|
program (a computer)
i.e.: programmer
pronominal type 7 rover
prefix verb verb suffix verb suffix
| | | |
vI- -ta'- -pu'- -be'
| | | |
| | (perfective) not
| |
| accomplish
|
I-him/her/it/them
i.e.: I didn't do it!
--
same as it ever was...
