tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jun 25 09:50:16 1993
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Re: Klingon on road signs!
- From: mark <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon on road signs!
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 93 11:38:21 EST
HoD qengvo':
> Wouldn't
> tlhIngan Hol 'e' majatlh naDev
> work for "Klingon language spoken here"?
Not very well. ma- means "we" subject and no object, or an
understood object. The Type 5 verb suffix -lu' "indefinite
subject" would fit this situation very well; in general, English
passive forms often are well expressed with -lu'. Thus:
naDev tlhIngan Hol jatlhlu'
- marqem
Mark A. Mandel
Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
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