[Tlhingan-hol] KLBC: introduction

[Robyn Stewart]

At 10:10 '?????' 6/15/2012, you wrote:
> > Felix, this was a brilliant idea. I just love this concept.
>
>jIQochbe'. {I agree.} ...but I'm not sure why my name appears in 
>that sentence; it was Lieven who started this :P

Yours was the first that arrived in my mailbox, and you did the first 
correction I saw. Lievan, qanaD.

>________________________________________
>From: Qov [robyn at flyingstart.ca]
>Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 18:01
>To: tlhingan-hol at stodi.digitalkingdom.org
>Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] KLBC: introduction
>
>I was waiting for Felix on this, but seeing as Lieven has started,
>and Lawrence is unlikely to be intimidated by multiple BGs ...
>
>At 21:05 '?????' 6/14/2012, Lawrence M. Schoen wrote:
>
> >rut juHwIj Suchta' qeylIS 'ej tlhIngan Hol wIHaD
> >Kahless sometimes visits my house and we study the Klingon language.
>
>{Suchta'} with the perfective aspect indicates that the action is
>completed. While you may not be following the current discussion
>showing disagreement among experienced speakers on perfective aspect,
>I think most would prefer just {Such} here.  The action is neither
>continuous nor completed, so it takes no type-7 suffix.
>
> >ghaytan pIj naDev mulegh 'ach Dat ghojwI'pu'wI' nutu'laH
> >Likely, you won't see me here often, but you can find my spies everywhere.
>
>This doesn't quite mean what you intended. It says, "Likely he will
>often see me here, but my spies he/she/it/they can find us everywhere."
>
>Have another look at the prefix table on page 33 and see if you can
>substitute the correct verb prefixes. (I recommend you use the table
>itself, not the list in the back of the book).
>
>I suspect you just forgot to use the suffix {-be'} to negate leghbe',
>but I suggest you use the adverb {pIjHa'} instead. It's not in TKD,
>but Marc has used it elsewhere.
>
> >paqDaq vong Datu' 'ej vay' Sopbogh *tangqa'-targhHom Datu'
> >In the book you will find a hypnotist and a "buffalo dog" that can
> >eat anything.
>
>vong is the verb hypnotise. To make it into hypnotist, add the suffix
>{-wI'}. Note that in Klingon that could also mean a hypnotising *device*.
>
>Felix, this was a brilliant idea. I just love this concept. We should
>make it a monthly feature with a little theme for us all to write
>SIMPLE sentences on and then to have them corrected in scrupulous KLBC style.
>
>- Qov
>
>
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