[86830] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Yet another newbie!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terrence Donnelly)
Thu Nov 12 10:34:01 2009
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:32:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Terrence Donnelly <terrence.donnelly@sbcglobal.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <e3aa2e059cf96d70eed08830fa472faf.squirrel@letter.sics.se>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
--- On Thu, 11/12/09, kff@sics.se <kff@sics.se> wrote:
> {jIHvaD De' Danobta' 'e'vaD qatlho'}
>
> Ok, I think this is wrong, but I can't figure out how to
> say 'because'.
> It's not really 'in order to', so I can't use '-meH', I
> think. Tricky.
>
The suffix {-mo'} is what you want. This would eliminate the need for {'e'}, which AFAIK never takes any suffixes, anyway. So,
{jIHvaD De' Danobmo' qatlho'}
>...
>
> > And don't forget the movies, they contain the
> "original" Klingon, even
> > though it's sometimes hard to understand.
>
> I have seen the first (many years ago) and the third. Are
> there any other
> movies with a lot of Klingon?
>
I have several movies in Klingon on my website. Not canon, of course, but I think my pronunciation is at least as good as most of the official actors.
http://teresh.tdonnelly.org
-- ter'eS
