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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: poS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gaerfindel)
Mon Jun 9 21:11:43 2014
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 21:11:24 -0400
From: Gaerfindel <gaerfindel@hotmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <003c01cf8442$ff8fb5f0$feaf21d0$@flyingstart.ca>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@kli.org
On 6/9/2014 8:29 PM, Robyn Stewart wrote:
> Gaerfindel <gaerfindel@hotmail.com>:
>
>> A small story {bomHom} I've composed on that:
>> {jagh' chaH cha' vaj, 'ach paS DeSDu' 'uchchup, loDni' rur. Suvba'vhugh,
> DaqtaghmeyDajvaD nIH ghItDu' neH.}
>
> standard grammar wants -'e' on vaj.
> paS -> poS
> -chup -> -chuq
> loDni - > loDnI'
> -vhugh -> -chugh
> -Daj -> -chaj
With the exception of {-chup} and {-Daj} the rest are simple typos.
> You're missing a verb at the end so nIH is automatically interpreted as one,
> meaning that you've written "For his d'ktaghs the flat hands merely steal."
> An appropriate verb would be ratlh.
>
> Note that ghIt refers to a hand held open and flat. If you're going to grip
> a dagger, you would use a ghop.
>
> - Qov
>
> .. who most certainly has made every one of those errors in the past year,
> because the more you write, the more errors you make, but that's how you
> learn. Typos count as errors because they are hard for beginners to
> interpret, and make it hard for advanced students to know whether you know
> whether you need Klingon language help, or just typing lessons.
So then the rerwright would be: {jagh' chaH cha' vaj'e', 'ach poS DeSDu'
'uchchuq, loDnI' rur. Suvba'chugh
DaqtaghmeychajvaD ratlh ghopDu' neH.}
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