[Tlhingan-hol] KLCP 1 vocab practice...

[Dillon, Kyle]

I just joined this group. I'm a professional linguist (majored in French, served as an Arabic/Kurdish interpreter in the Navy, studied Greek/Hebrew/Aramaic in seminary, now I teach high school Latin/French), and I've recently been interested in studying a fictional language, so here I am! I just started learning the Klingon verb system, and I have a couple questions about the translations below:

"Dujvam vItlhe'moH. yuQ vIchegh!"
"Turn this ship. Return to the planet!"
Shouldn't this be "yItlhe'moH" and "yIchegh" (Imperative, 3rd sing. object)?

"jImoD!"
"Hurry!"
Shouldn't this be: "yImoD" (imperative) rather than "jImoD" ("I hurry")?

"qatlh jIbejbe'?"
"Why aren't you watching?"
Shouldn't this be: "qatlh bibejbe'" (2nd sing.)?

I am still new to the verb prefix system, so I could me missing something here. Just curious!

Kyle Dillon

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On Apr 13, 2016, at 4:00 PM, "chransberry at gmail.com<mailto:chransberry at gmail.com>" <chransberry at gmail.com<mailto:chransberry at gmail.com>> wrote:

Pardon the silence; I spent the weekend visiting with my grandparents from out of state. <3

>From the weekend:
Degh, qet, qevpob, chegh, 'Ij

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DeghDaq qet HoD.
The captain ran to the helm.
(Actually, does this mean he ran, while at the helm, or that he ran from another place, to the helm, or both?)

qettaHvIS vIH qevpobDaj.
While he ran, his jowls moved.

jIHvaD jatlh: "HI'Ij!
He said to me: "Listen to me!

"Dujvam vItlhe'moH. yuQ vIchegh!
"Turn this ship. Return to the planet!

"jImoD! tugh loj nInwIj!"
"Hurry! Soon our fuel will be gone!"

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>From today:
'uQ, bej, magh

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[bIq DujDaq:]

"qatlh jIbejbe'?
"Why aren't you watching?

"yIbejtaH 'e' vIra'!
I commanded that you keep watching!

"jaghvaD jumagh DaneH!"
"You want to betray us to the enemy!"

"'uQwIjvaD ghotI' vIjon vIneH!"
"I wanted to catch a fish for my dinner!"
(use of {-vaD}?)

"ghochlIjDaq 'uQ DavutnISbe'!"
"At your destination, you won't need to make dinner!"
(trying to say "you won't need dinner where you're going!" like a threat to throw the guy overboard or something. Does that work?)

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-QISta'

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From: Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu<mailto:sboozer at uchicago.edu>>
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