tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 27 15:09:06 1998
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Re: nay' mIw
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: nay' mIw
- Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 17:07:35 -0500 (CDT)
: I like to put the Klingon recipes I write into the 3-rd person demonstrative,
: instead of the imperative that we use in our cookbooks. My reasoning is
: that Klingons don't like to be told what to do, especially by a book, so
: it's best to just describe the procedure they can follow if they want to.
:
: -- ter'eS
Perhaps cookbooks and other instruction manuals use Clipped Klingon -- for
brevity's sake.
It's too bad Okrand didn't provide a sample recipe in KGT from J'puq's
famous Klingon cookbook, {jabmeH}.
Voragh