[Tlhingan-hol] Significance of constructed languages

[Karen Alessio]

that is exactly how I feel at thr moment too. Glad I'm not alone, qunnoQ.
On Nov 1, 2015 2:27 PM, "qunnoQ HoD" <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:

> > {Holmey lumutlhlu'bogh} = "languages which are constructed".
>
> that is what i wanted to say ! at first I tried to write <<constructed
> languages>>,but i couldn't find the exact words. then I thought of saying
> <<languages linguists constructed>> but this went south too. so finally I
> decided to try and write <<languages which are constructed>>
>
> just a question on {-ghach} because I didn't quite understand its use. is
> {-ghach} only to be glued at verbs ending in suffixes as {-be'}, {Ha'} etc,
> or can I put it too on verbs such as {Hurgh} ? So as to mean {Hurghghach} =
> Darkness ?
>
> ok, the time has come to confess my sin..
>
> when I try to write in Klingon,I start trying to build a sentence and
> slowly I manage to get somewhere. the sentence maybe wrong, but my mind can
> process the way things ought to be. I think of the verb,then who does what
> to whom, glue the prefix, put the object first, the subject last etc..
>
> but when I try to translate from klingon to english it feels as if my mind
> is being tied into a knot. it feels as if I'm driving in reverse going up a
> mountain at night.. I'm used to sentences subject-verb-object,and when i
> try to read in the opposite order it just feels so weird !
>
> unfortunately -for the time being- i can't translate from klingon to
> english. i believe its way too premature for me unless the sentences are
> very simple.
>
> thank you very much for your comments !
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 8:29 PM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> qunnoQ HoD:
>> >> vInDa'pu' pIm. HatlhmeyDaq pIm. Hatlhmeyvo' pIm. nughmeyvo' pIm.
>>
>> De'vID:
>> > mu'tlheghmey naQ bIHbe'. Dach wot'a'.
>>
>> Note also that {Hatlh} refers to the "country" in the sense of
>> "countryside". The political sense of a "country" or "state" is {Sep}.
>>
>> --
>> De'vID
>>
>
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