tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 14 11:03:03 1998

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RE: Text for web page

: ---"Rose, Thornton (Atlanta)"  wrote:
: > /Samlu'/ fits better, too. Why should I use the indefinite
: > subject prefix /-lu'/, though, instead of the perfective 
: > prefix /-pu'/?
: 
: The /-lu'/ on /Samlu'/ says that the records were found, without
: specifying who or what found them.  Kind of useful for acircumstance
: like this where the subject could be the searcher, the computer,
: another computer, or a personofied computer "I."  Adding the
: perfective /-pu'/ for "have been found" "done finding" is an excellent
: idea.  (Note that it's not a matter of "instead" because /-lu'/ and
: /-pu'/ are not the same type of suffix.
: 
: De'vam Samlu'pu' - this data has been found
: 
: Qov - Beginners' Grammarian

If Klingon computers use Clipped Klingon to interact with the user, another
option would be to clip off the verb prefix, which nicely blurs just who (or
what) has done the finding:

  432 ta(mey) Sampu'  -  432 record(s) found

{-mey} is optional in Klingon, and perhaps best left off a boiler-plate
responce since it's perfectly clear without it.  Hmm... does {Samta'} work
better, since the search was intentionally accomplished?

  432 ta Samta'  -  432 record(s) found

Voragh

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