tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 04 19:04:04 1997
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RE: Stative verbs
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Stative verbs
- Date: Sat, 5 Apr 97 02:58:08 UT
jatlh HomDoq:
> certainly it is not possible to say that only verbs which are translated
> into German using "sein" ("to be") can be used attributively in Klingon
But if the person who worked with Maltz happened to be a native German
speaker, he would have put "sein" into TKD in only the appropriate places, not
only where there is "to be" in the English version.
The bottom line, I think: Okrand was not always consistent in TKD.
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SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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