tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Feb 22 20:30:38 1998
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Re: KLBC: "to be"
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: "to be"
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 23:30:23 -0500 (EST)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>(message from ANDRE PADILLA on Fri, 13 Feb 1998 10:38:28 -0800 (PST))
>Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 10:38:28 -0800 (PST)
>From: ANDRE PADILLA <[email protected]>
>
>The verb for "to be" is "taH - continue".
That wasn't what was asked. {taH}-to continue might be a tolerable
translation of "to exist", but it's not the linking "to be" as in "I am a
Human." That's a copula, and Klingon has no verb for that. It's hardly
alone; neither do Russian or Hebrew (at least in present tense) or gobs of
other languages.
~mark