tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Feb 07 12:34:29 1999
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RE: KLBC: Two things...
ja' Voragh:
>where {ghojwI'} "student" is IMHO a bit less clumsy than keeping {ghoj} a verb:
>
> tlhIngan Hol yejHaD muvnIS tlhIngan Hol ghojbogh Hoch nuv 'e' vIHarbej
> I do believe that every person who studies Klingon should join the Klingon
> Language Institute.
>
>although the latter is certainly better if I wanted to add yet another noun to the subject string:
>
> tlhIngan Hol yejHaD muvnIS tlhIngan Hol ghojbogh Hoch tera'ngan nuv 'e' vIHarbej
>
>for "every Terran student of Klingon", although now {nuv} is redundant and can be safely omitted. Which just goes to show that there's always more than one way to express an idea if you just give it some thought.
{nuv} is already redundant in the first phrase. I think {Hoch} "everybody"
works just fine without it.
-- ghunchu'wI'