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[Tlhingan-hol] Fw: Some useful mnemonics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucifuge Rofocale)
Tue Nov 15 06:47:31 2011
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:47:07 +0000 (GMT)
From: Lucifuge Rofocale <fiat_knox@yahoo.co.uk>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
In-Reply-To: <CA+cwSm8KYndESp_ud9ojF+7_PWnGjn=gv2Vyy4cAMLz=22me_A@mail.gmail.com>
Reply-To: Lucifuge Rofocale <fiat_knox@yahoo.co.uk>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
I have a neat way of remembering (at the least) the first line of Klingon v=
erb prefixes. "jI-qa-vI-, savvy?"
The others have similar mnemonics, and of course the imperative prefixes I =
remember as "yI-HI-yI-fish" and "pe-HI-yI-fish."
It sounds silly, but we seem to remember the silly things best.
> Here are some useful mnemonics, some of which I heard at qepHom
> wa'maHDIch in Saarbr=FCcken last week (November 2011), some of which I
> had come up with on my own:
> =
> {poS vaj nIH} "It's open, so he steals it" - to help you remember =
> that
> {poS} is "left" and {nIH} is "right". (From loghaD, I =
> believe.)
> =
> {moHaq} has a protrusion on the upper side (the "H"), so it means =
> "prefix".
> {mojaq} has a protrusion on the lower side (the "j"), so it means =
> "suffix".
> (This one is my own.)
> =
> {-Qo'} is a "type 8.5" suffix, since it always comes last except =
> when
> followed by a type 9 suffix.
> =
> Similarly, {-Ha'} is a "type 0.5" suffix, since it always comes =
> right
> after the verb stem, even before any type 1 suffix.
Vitae est, Jim, sed non cognoscitur.
Non cognoscitur, =
Non cognoscitur. =
Vitae est, Jim, sed non cognoscitur. =
Non cognoscitur, =
Ducem.
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