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Advantages of a limited lexicon

• From: "Robyn Stewart" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Advantages of a limited lexicon
• Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 13:26:46 PST
• Organization: NLK Consultants, Inc.
• Priority: normal

cha' SanID tlhIngan mu' DISovmo' neH tlhInganvaD potlh wIghoj.  wa'Hu' 
"You speak Klingon very well" vIjatlh vIneH, 'ach tlhIngan Hol 
vIlo'taHvIS ngeDqu'mo' <batlh tlhIngan Hol Dajatlh> vIja'. 
tlhInganna' Hol QubmoHlaw' mu'tlhegh vIlo'laHbogh.

jImugh: Because we know a mere two thousand Klingon words, we are 
learning what is important to Klingons.  Yesterday I wanted to say 
"You speak Klingon very well," but because it was so easy in Klingon 
to say "You speak Klingon with honour" I said that. The words I could 
use appeared to make me think Klingon.

DaH machqu' mu'taywIj 'ach qastaHvIS jajmey mu'mey vIghoj.  tugh cha' 
SaD mu' vISovbej!

Hmmm.  What does a pabpo' think of translating <vIja'> as "I said 
that" above.  "I said it" seemed unnecessarily ambiguous in English, 
so now I wonder if the Klingon is too ambiguous also.

    wovwI'

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