tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 16 13:00:10 1995
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Re: KLBC How is this?
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC How is this?
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 95 16:00:05 EST
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "achghuQ the Klingon Warrior" at Jan 16, 95 1:06 pm
According to achghuQ the Klingon Warrior:
...
> But isn't nej 'looking for, searching'?
I misremembered {bej}, following your suggestion rather than
looking it up. I think the verb {bej} would be better than
{HaD} or {tu'}, since both indicate activities of the mind
rather than the simple direction of eyes. Try:
mubejlaw' lam.
> What do you think of HaD or tu'? I
> think mutu'lI' 'oH or muHaDlI' 'oH are maybe closer to what I want.
I don't think so.
> >There is no specific construction for this. Linguists call it
> >the "irrealis" (I think) and Klingon does not have it.
> >Meanwhile, you can express this sort of thing easily enough:
>
> >batlh vIghajchugh vaj jI[verb]nIS.
>
> Thank you, this will be very helpful.
>
> Qapla'
>
> achghuQ
qay'be'
charghwI'
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