tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 22 19:05:01 2006
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RE: Neologisms (was Re: I have a few questions that confuse me...)
- From: "DloraH" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Neologisms (was Re: I have a few questions that confuse me...)
- Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:04:39 -0600
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> I skimmed over that, but i'm sure the hardest problem anyone
> would have with klingon is the fact that there is no form of
> "to be" in the language.. limiting you to "apache talk". lol
> Which does add a little humor to itself when you're not used to it.
I sure there are languages other than English that use a "to be", but of the
languages that I have studied, Thai, Arabic, and Maori, (and klingon), none
of them have a "to be". So in my world of linguistics, no "to be" is
normal.
DloraH
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