[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: meq

[Robyn Stewart]

DIvI' Hol vIttlhegh:
vIghro' Surghlu'meH wa' mIw neH tu'lu'be'. 

"There's more than one way to skin a cat."

> On Feb 20, 2016, at 10:06, mayql qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> in greece we have this saying :
> 
> "the clever lad knows another path too" ; it sounds ridiculous in
> english, but it expresses the truth that when you come to a difficult
> situation, there are others paths to follow, in order to get the job
> done.
> 
> after I realized, that in boQwI' there is knowledge from HQ and
> qep'a's that I couldn't find anywhere else, two things happened :
> 
> 1. I was pissed
> 2. as a result of being pissed, I said this to myself :
> 
> "..you will take your compiled dictionary and you will put in boQwI'
> one by one every word ; then you will put one by one every
> prefix/suffix and piece of grammar you know of. and after you do all
> this you will put in boQwI' every known klingon sentence.. And each
> time you will be writing in your notes every information, every
> sentence, every comment ; you will open every link and write in your
> notes EVERYTHING !.."
> 
> It is a process which is still ongoing, and it is hard as hell.
> However I believe, that it eventually gives you an insight on many
> things which as a beginner you could have never known of. So, I
> believe that eventually there is a way to compensate for missing
> grammar.
> 
> It all comes down to a simple question : How much do you want it ?
> 
> As the chinese (or japanese) say : "there are many paths to the top of
> the mountain.."
> 
> cpt qunnoq
> lursa and b'etor marry me !
> 
>> On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 7:10 PM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
>>> On 2/20/2016 12:03 PM, mayql qunenoS wrote:
>>> 
>>> I couldn't have known of {...law' ...law'} unless sometime way back
>>> -by sheer luck- I hadn't happened to come across that topic in boQwI'.
>>> 'arHa' didn't know either..
>> 
>> 
>> Don't feel too bad. I have every HolQeD and I didn't remember the rule.
>> 
>>> Those who were lucky enough to study klingon, while HolQeD was
>>> available are lucky ; The rest are f**** !!! Sorry for using the f
>>> word, but that's just how it is. They aren't just at a disadvantage ;
>>> they aren't just at a tight spot ; they aren't just in more difficult
>>> situation.. Oh no.. T-h-e-y  a-r-e  f**** !!!
>> 
>> 
>> jIQochbe'chu'. ghu'vam qarnISmoHlu'bej.
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> SuStel
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>> 
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