tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 11 13:46:57 2004
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Re: an answer which is no answer
- From: "QeS lagh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: an answer which is no answer
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 06:46:15 +1000
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ghItlhpu' qurgh:
>I know exactly what you mean. I use the phrases "in order to" and "due to"
>a lot
>more than I ever used to do. I even asked for "something that I drink" the
>other
>day.. :)
I hear you. {{:) "In order to" is something that's very much crept into my
own speech as a result of Klingon. Occasionally I even find myself lapsing
into OVS word order in English, and that can get a bit bizarre. Sometimes I
have to catch myself before I look too big a fool: "The computer; turn it
off!" {{:D
But my personal {veqlargh} is the indefinite subject. All the time now, I
say things like "one gets the feeling...", "one understands..." as a result
of the {-lu'} suffix. {{:S
That might be an interesting subject for a HolQeD article. It'd be
interesting to see how the native languages of the better Klingon-speakers
are affected by aspects of Klingon. Some speakers of very high levels of
ability, I've noticed, use a lot of imperative sentences in English - that's
a very Klingon thing to do.
Savan.
QeS lagh
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