tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 18 13:59:26 1995
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Re: Crispin's Klingon
- From: Will Martin <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Crispin's Klingon
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 16:59:24 -0500
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~mark says:
> Sure, Klingon can't talk about a ship being a "he" or "she" in
> the pronoun... but they'd never say, for example, that the Imperial Warship
> *bortaS bIr* is fine old lady (while Kirk might call the Enterprise that).
> They'd refer to it as a brave fighting man, etc (assuming, of course, that
> the whole business about Klingon referring to their ships as male is
> correct in the first place). You don't need pronouns for it.
>
> ~mark
wejpuH. vaj <SuvwI' ghaH DujwIj'e'> Dajatlh'a'? Qu'vatlh! Doch neH 'oH Duj. be' loD joq 'oHbe'ba' Duj! naDev qoHpu' chaHchoHpu''a' Hoch?
charghwI'