tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 29 17:06:11 1995
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Re: qeylIS betleH
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: qeylIS betleH
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 20:06:36 -0500
peHruS writes:
>In Hebrew a time-word can stand alone. For example, "boker" can be a
>standalone sentence meaning "It was morning." If tlhIngan Hol can allow for
>this type of sentence also, then {ram} can mean "It is night."
I don't think the time-of-day words can do that. They're clearly nouns.
I know of no justification for letting them act as verbs.
>Then the participants should say, "OK. It is night." Then just get up and
>leave.
That's not what occurred in the episode, however. They obviously
wished each other "good night" in Klingon (or a similar language).
Kor definitely is not a conventional Klingon. :-)
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj