{van} is a very reasonable way for Klingons (and thus Klingonists) to great eachother. The controversy comes in the fact that you are obliquely making a statement about the action, not actually accomplishing the action. If you're going to salute me, then salute me - you don't have to talk about it, just do it. None the less, statements like {qavan} and {qatlho'} are very common among Klingonists and I even use them myself. janSIy On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 10:02 AM -0500, "Aurélie Demonchaux" <demonchaux.aurelie@gmail.com<mailto:demonchaux.aurelie@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi all, Wow thanks a lot for your warm welcome and feedback! •• I’ll try to reply to everyone below/ bIngDaq Hoch Sajang ‘e’ vInID (this email may be a bit long, sorry!) @’arHa
First off, wow! For a month of practice, your Klingon is /great!/ I bet it is because you are an experienced translator and language learner! Thanks a lot, it’s super encouraging to hear! It helps to already know other languages, but I’m actually not a very advanced klingonist so far: thlIngan Hol vIjatlhmeH ‘ej ‘oH vIlaDmeH mu’ghom vIlo’ mu’mey law’be’ vISov, vaj Hoch mu’vaD mu’ghom vIlo’nIS. poH law’ poQtaH ‘oH.
I think we usually use the verb {Dab} for "to inhabit" a country, so: vIraS vIDab. But what you wrote isn't grammatically incorrect. DalughmoHta’mo’ qatlho’ ••
@Lieven / Quvar valer 'utlh:
this sounds very strange to me, because that's my daughter's name :-) Oops, maybe I should take a Klingon name then. I put “mughwI’” as my username on the KLI so if it sounds fine as a Klingon name, then so be it. (if not, then to reply this essential question of “what’s your Klingon name”, I could also answer loSmaH cha’ ;-). But let me know if it sounds bad though!
As our current BG already said, your klingon is VERY good for being your first message. qatlho’ ••
Here it seems like you've misinterpreted the word "film" for a movie. Literally, the word {mIllogh qonwI' qoSta'} means "image-recorder-ribbon", so it's the kind of film that is used in a photocamera, not a movie. Sorry about that! So to convey “movie”, it should be “HaSta much”, qar’a’?
Have you seen the Klingon language wiki already? Yes, this is where I found out about the KLBC. I will think about possible contributions there for the French, I see there are a lot of pages that would need translation.
re. introducing oneself: I found "lIH" on the klingonska website with the example “To begin to sing a song is to lIH (literally, introduce) the song [...]” so I thought it was only a musical term. Will make a note of “jIlIH'egh » for next time.
I also wanted to say, Youtube-Daq muchmey Dalanbogh vIparHa’ •• @QISta’:
Hello :-) (I'm a Terran so if I don't say "hello" I'll explode!) Haha yes I know the feeling! I wanted to say “nuqneH” in my 1st message but as I’m the newcomer, it doesn’t apply. And I don’t know if “I salute you” / “qavan” can serve as a greeting formula (it has quite a military connotation, qar’a’?)
@mIp'av:
Aurélie, maHvaD bIjatlhpu' <SaqIHneS>. naDev bIjatlhnISbe' <neS>. Ok, I was trying to convey “nice to meet you” so I figured adding “neS” would convey a similar idea in a Klingon way, using “I'm honoured to meet you” instead. But then the true Klingon way is possibly to just say nothing in those cases, a bit like for “hello”.
qaStaHvIS loS DIS tlhIngan Hol vIHaDqu'taH, 'a tugh SoH po' law' jIH po' puS 'e' vIpIH. jInIDlI' :)
2016-09-28 15:08 GMT+02:00 Ed Bailey <bellerophon.modeler@gmail.com<mailto:bellerophon.modeler@gmail.com>>: jatlh QISta': tlhIngan SoH 'e' vIHar. :-P bImuj. tera'ngan jIH, 'a qatru' jIHmo', nugh tIgh vIpablaHqu'be'. 'a pIjHa' jatwIj vI'ang. ~mIp'av. On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 3:36 AM, Christa Hansberry <chransberry@gmail.com<mailto:chransberry@gmail.com>> wrote: jatlh mip'av: mIp'av 'oH pongwIj'e'. 'amerIqa' vIDab je, QISta' vIrur. (QISta', jIjatlhbe' <Hello> 'a wej jIjor.) 'ach... tera'ngan jIH. tlhIngan SoH 'e' vIHar. :-P -QISta' _______________________________________________ tlhIngan-Hol mailing list tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org<mailto:tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org> http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org _______________________________________________ tlhIngan-Hol mailing list tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org<mailto:tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org> http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org