tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 04 19:03:14 1997
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RE: KLBC: Practicing...
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: Practicing...
- Date: Sat, 5 Apr 97 02:22:13 UT
jatlh mIqIraH:
> Here's a question... how would one say, "I have nothing to say?"
> Perhaps:
>
> pagh QIch vIghaj.
> I posess no vocal sounds.
>
> But that isn't at all what I meant to say!
No, it isn't.
> Maybe it would simply be:
>
> jIjatlhbe'.
> I don't speak.
No, you might have something to say, but choose not to.
How about
pagh vIjatlhlaH.
I can say nothing.
This is just a bit different than the original, and it obviously won't mean
that you are incapable of speech. Or how about turning it around entirely?
nuq vIjatlhnIS?
What do I need to say?
Sounds a bit rhetorical, though.
pagh vIjatlhlaHbogh vISov.
I know nothing which I can say.
I like that one.
> That would work fine, but it seems a bit ambiguous. I was planning on
> writing, "I don't have anything to say, but I'm practicing my Klingon
> anyway."
Then you can just add a bit:
pagh vIjatlhlaHbogh vISov 'ach tlhIngan Hol vIqeqtaH 'e' vImevbe'.
I know nothing which I can say, but I don't stop that I am practicing Klingon.
--
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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