tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 09 07:40:48 1997
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Re: KLBC: expression of obligation
>Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 11:34:03 -0700 (PDT)
>From: [email protected]
>
>I couldn't find any way of expressing obligation in TKD. I thought there
>would be
>some type 2 suffixes for this, in the same way -nIS and -qang express need
>and
>will respectively, but it is not the case.
>
>So what are the constructs used to express "must" and "ought" (which I expect
>to be distinct in Klingon as they are in English)? Or is this a concept
>unknown
>to Klingons, so that they would rather use something as "be forced to"?
I'd think they'd just use -nIS for both.
~mark