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Re: vIghro'vetlh

Robyn Stewart ([email protected])

• From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: vIghro'vetlh
• Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:27:01 -0800
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At 11:50 PM 11/9/2007, you wrote:
>True.  The question is how you decide when you've
>reached that point.  I suppose this can vary from
>language to language (and from speaker to speaker),
>but I don't think the complexity of my Klingon
>sentence would seem excessive in any of the human
>languages I've studied.

And that instinct can be wrong.  I was good friends with a bilingual 
woman whose first language was French, and it was at the university 
level that she finally realized that the English books she was 
reading were not baby books, but that properly formed literate 
English sentences are simply shorter than the equivalent French sentences.

>      "When I try to predict whether you'll be willing
>to accept something or not, I find it's extremely
>difficult."
>
>and I can't imagine that any native speaker of English
>would find that sentence excessively complex.

Not in English, no. Now change your mindset and write in Klingon, 
instead of translating English.

If it sounds choppy in English it is more like any Klingon we've seen. 

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