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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
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From: erich@bush.cs.tamu.edu (Erich Schneider)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 93 00:29:30 CDT
In-Reply-To: "Adeena J. Mignogna"'s message of Thu, 29 Apr 1993 19:17:27 -0400
>From: "Adeena J. Mignogna" <quasar@wam.umd.edu>
An attempt at constructive criticism. As the old saying goes,
"ghojmoHwI' Dun 'oH 'oy'."
>jIQuch net jabbI'IDwIj wa'Dich Sulugh.
I can't make head or tail of this. "net" is used to indicate a
sentence that is the object of an impersonal action. Furthermore,
"Sulugh" is "you (pl.) are correct" (in te'QaS, "y'all are correct"),
which doesn't take an object. Perhaps you meant to say "I am happy my
first message was correct." This could be said as "lughpu'mo' jabbI'Idwij
wa'DIch jiQuch", I think. "I am happy because my first message was
correct."
>QaQlaw' jabbI'IDvam.
"This message seems good."
>jIghojnIS.
"I need to learn."
>ghItlh jISovbe'.
"ghItlh" by itself is "manuscript"/"piece of writing". I think you
might have wanted to say "I don't know writing" or "I don't know how
to write"; these could be expressed by "ghItlhghach jISovbe'" and
"jIghItlhlaHbe'" (which has a different meaning). It's correct if you
wanted to say "I don't know the manuscript."
>'ar jabbI'IDvam lugh?
You wanted to say "how much of this message is correct?" However,
"'ar" follows the noun it refers to, and to get the meaning you want,
you need something like "jabbI'IDvamDaq lugh Doch 'ar?" "How many
things in this message are correct?"
wamghach QaQ,
'avrIn
