Who speaks how much tlhIngan Hol?

[baghneQ]

posted on 7-14-2003 at 05:19 PM

Who speaks how much tlhIngan Hol?

Who speakes _____ Klingon?
a) Fluent
B ) Most
c) Little
d) No

[ngabwI]

posted on 7-14-2003 at 06:14 PM

{'op tlhIngan Hol vIjatlh.}

{'op tlhIngan Hol vIjatlh.
Sochvatlh vaghmaH mu' vISov.
DaSov qatlh 'e' DaneH?}

I speak some Klingon.
I know about 750 words.
Why ya' asking? }}: )

HovpoH 700285.0
 

[qurgh]

posted on 7-14-2003 at 06:38 PM

"poll" DachenmoH DaneH'a'? "poll" vIchenmoHlaH 'ej chay mapo' 'e' wItu'.
tlhIngan Hol mu'mey law' vISov jIH 'a vItoghlaHbe'. mu'ghom vIghaj 'ej pIj vIlo'. mu'ghomwIj vIchenmoH 'ej ghop De'wI'Daq vIpol. lo'laHghach Dunqu' ghaj.

Did you mean to make a poll? I can make a poll and we can find how skilled we are.
As for me, I know many Klingon words but I can't count them. I have a dictionary and I use it often. I made my dictionary and I keep it on my hand-held computer. It has lots of wonderful value.

Ok, that last line just doesn't sound as good in the English as the original Klingon. But thats what you get from a forced translation.

Thanks goes to ngabwI' for pointing out a minor translation error. I was thinking one thing when I wrote the Klingon and something different when I wrote the English.

[voraq]

posted on 7-15-2003 at 12:57 PM

I speak very little klingon. But, I am attempting to teach myself klingon using the Klingon Dictionary, Klingon for the Galactic Traveler and Power Klingon. (It's easier now with power klingon because I not only see how to pronounce the sounds but I can also hear Mark Okrand pronounce them) On that note, if anyone knows how to get a hold of Conversational Klingon other than on the internet please let me know-- I can not find it anywhere.

voraq
 

[Somraw+]

posted on 7-17-2003 at 11:34 AM

I speak very little, and with good reason. I speak english, everyone else speaks english, so why learn a language when i speak a language that most people speak and everyone else is learning (now theres a klinogn attitude for yah)

[ngabwI]

posted on 7-17-2003 at 12:37 PM

Kinda missin' the point...

Originally posted by Somraw+
I speak very little, and with good reason. I speak english, everyone else speaks english, so why learn a language when i speak a language that most people speak and everyone else is learning (now theres a klinogn attitude for yah)

Simply put, because it is fun and interesting.

Note: I did not say EASY. But I do not find the concepts mutually exclusive.
Perhaps you do, and that's OK.

All of this (Klindom) is intended as a diversion, entertainment. If the challenge of another language is not your idea of a good time, so be it. It is no different from the fact that I'd rather pull my upper lip over my head than attend a baseball game.
Deathly boring, baseball...
I digress, however.

Note: This post was not intended to attack the quoted poster. It is easy to miss the meaning of a directly-worded post. I am not flaming, merely issuing an opinion. I come in peace.

HovpoH 700296.3

[Somraw+]

posted on 7-17-2003 at 05:00 PM

Okay sure, i suppose you have a point. I'm still not not learning it though, i'm a college and i have to learn more useful things, if I clutter up my mind with an entire language, imagine what useful info i'll push out of my head.
On saying that, I do like to learn other alphabets but thats becasue I have an interest in codes and ciphers, and i suppose I do have an interest in languages, just not enough time or patience to learn one.

I too would rather pull my upper lip over my head than go to a baseball (or any other crappy american, english, german or otherwise sport for that matter)

[ngabwI]

posted on 7-17-2003 at 11:37 PM

I could have sworn they were around here somewhere...

Originally posted by Somraw+
Okay sure, i suppose you have a point. I'm still not not learning it though, i'm a college and i have to learn more useful things, if I clutter up my mind with an entire language, imagine what useful info i'll push out of my head.

I know what you mean. I still can't find my keys.

On saying that, I do like to learn other alphabets but thats becasue I have an interest in codes and ciphers...

And that might lead into full-fledged languages, but I don't feel that you should be disparaged for not wanting to learn it. (Vice versa is true, as well, though.)

HovpoH 700298.

[tmk1000]

posted on 7-18-2003 at 10:45 PM

:lol: good one Kesvirit

(You keep your keys in your head? Do you perhaps mean you store them tucked in anongst your ridges? Or perhaps you have had some of your ridges pierced, and a key ring attached...)

good one . :lol:  i will have to say C) i am learning . i find klingon very cool. i want to learn another language after klingon.
 

[Klythe]

posted on 7-19-2003 at 01:33 AM

I have memorized scant few words, but I study the grammar, morphology, philosophy and other aspects of the design of the language to complement my understanding of Klingon culture. I much perfer to learn the words that do not translate, then the hundreds of words that so far as the Klingon Dictionary will tell us are exactly equivallent to another word in English.

You can memorize all the words you wish, but if you use them like a terran, you may find you wish that you did not learn the word before learning how to use it.

[Kesvirit]

posted on 7-18-2003 at 01:18 AM

quoth Somraw+ I speak very little, and with good reason. *** I'm still not not learning it though, i'm a college and i have to learn more useful things,...

And yet you, who simultaneously speak very little tlhIngan Hol and refuse to learn it, apparently think yourself fluent enough to lecture me in on the intricacies of transliteration in the Paramount Hol thread. I shall have to have a talk with your instructors about this. Either they are shirking thier duties in teaching, or you are shirking your duties in learning.

-=-=-=-=-=-

quoth Somraw+: "if I clutter up my mind with an entire language, imagine what useful info i'll push out of my head."

replied ngabwI': "I know what you mean. I still can't find my keys. "

(You keep your keys in your head? Do you perhaps mean you store them tucked in anongst your ridges? Or perhaps you have had some of your ridges pierced, and a key ring attached...)

:lol: I take it you both refer to a work by one of Earth's greatest solons known as Durst's Law: "Isn't it amazing, the $h!+ that settles into the crevices of your mind..."

As to pulling my upper lip over my head versus sitting through a baseball game: These are my only options? (And ngabwI' -- would you not have particular difficulty with the former? And would not your fellow baseballs take offense? )

Could I not watch the grass grow instead? At least then I could occupy my time by observing societies in minitature as the tiny creepycrawlies went about what passes for their insignifigant lives?
My time would be even more productive were I allowed to bring a magnifying glass and a child's instructional fabrication model. }}>:-D

- Kesvirit

Who, thanks to ngabwI's line "I come in peace. " , is now stuck with
"We come in peace! (shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill)
We come in peace! (shoot to kill) Scotty, beam me up!"
stuck in the crevices of her mind. (G'daya The Firm...)


(Edit -- AARGH! See Check the back of your storage locker for an explanation.)

[torqey]

posted on 7-14-2003 at 05:19 PM

Who speaks how much tlhIngan Hol?

Who speakes _____ Klingon?
a) Fluent
B ) Most
c) Little
d) No

For me C. Little.

[K'Voth]

I used to speak allot more then i do now. (I almost failed GCSE German because i was learning Klingon insted in my spare time) so i am going to go with halfway between C & D. Ha Ha I love Star Trekking by the Firm, it is my ringtone at the moment lol.