tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Mar 26 05:23:56 1997
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Re: paqghommey
- From: Daniel Noll <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: paqghommey
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 00:24:35 +1000
jatlh maqlIy:
>> DaH tlhIngan Hol neH vIghoj. chay' Qub ghotpu' 'e' vIghojmeH Holmey vIHad.
>> I am learning only Klingon now. I study languages in order to learn how
>> people think. [Read Whorf at an impressionable age.]
jatlh
> What we have here is a question-as-object. There is a lot of talk about
> whether this sort of thing would be allowed in Klingon. I happen to
believe
> it is not. Does this make any sense to you:
>
> I study languages in order that I learn that how do people think?
>
> That's essentially how it comes off in Klingon. [...]
Well, if you read it off as two sentences you get
How do people think?
I study languages in order to learn that.
which is very readable, and probably the way you'd be thinking if you didn't
want to do a DIvI' Hol translation. I suppose the only problem is Okrand
hasn't been seen doing it yet (constructing those sentences, that is).
voqHa'wI'
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