tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 23 21:35:59 2002
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Re: 'e' vIneH
- From: "Sangqar (Sean Healy)" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: 'e' vIneH
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 01:35:53 +0000
>I have only one thing to add to the responses to this question. When I say
>something like, "Honolulu is the capitol of Hawaii........... I think,"
>I'm
>using essentially the same construction that is being questioned in
>Klingon.
>"I think" is a complete sentence, but it's such a non sequitur as such, and
>so common as something referring back to the previous thought, that no one
>has any problem understanding it.
>
>Maybe to someone just learning English, it would sound weird. This use of
>"I
>think" is an exception to English grammar too, breaking normal word order.
>Yet, to native speakers, it sounds completely natural.
Exactly. That was my problem. It sounded weird to me because I have never
heard Klingon spoken by another person. I have no tapes, no nothing, just
little old me saying words out loud to myself. But after saying it out loud
to myself over and over again, I hit an intonation where everything just
clicked - something I may have figured out sooner had I any experience
hearing Klingon.
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