tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jun 14 22:51:53 1996
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RE: To greet or not to greet? Revisited
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: RE: To greet or not to greet? Revisited
- Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 00:55:36 -0500
beHwI"av writes:
>I think you may of seen my little discussion with ghunchu'wI', when I said
>you can start a may with "I want (it)..." {yIneH}, but ghunchu'wI' and
>others said that I may use it...
If I remember correctly, I said something like "You can certainly use it, but
I'm not sure I'd understand you." I'm also pretty sure you didn't translate
"I want" as {*yI*neH}, which means something like "Hey you -- want it!" The
proper prefix, of course, is {vI-} for "I want it" (or {jI-} for "I want").
If I were trying to act like a Klingon, I still wouldn't preface a message
with anything. I'd start with the message itself.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj