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Re: Thinking in Klingon

• From: HoD trI'Qal <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Thinking in Klingon
• Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1994 18:07:37 -0400 (EDT)
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Matt Whiteacre" at Jul 12, 94 07:41:12 am

> 
> 
> >
> >I have found out that it is easier to write in Klingon, and get it correct
> >if you *think* in Klingon.  (Often I'll find myself taking notes in a
> >class, and a spot or two will be in Klingon.)  
> >
> 
> How does one go about learning to think in Klingon?  I have been working 
> with Klingon for just over a year now.  I feel I have a good grasp of the 
> grammer, and with my TKD I can translate most anything (even Nick's 
> Shakespeare).  I do not however feel that I can THINK in Klingon.  I figure 
> part of my difficulty is being very mono-lingual.  Do you have any suggestions?

Uh... it comes with practice.

Basically, you have worked with the language enough that you don't have 
to keep going back to the beginning of your first line to put in that 
adverbial you forgot, because you already just *know* that the adverbials 
come first...

Practice?




--HoD trI'Qal
  tlhwD lIy So'

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