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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] X which are not Y
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Bailey)
Fri Mar 22 01:10:59 2019
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From: Ed Bailey <bellerophon.modeler@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 01:10:55 -0400
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There's no word for "but not" in Klingon (particularly to link nouns!)
but you don't need to complete a sentence if the listener knows what
you're going to say. If you say {Ha'DIbaH vIparHa' 'ach yIH}, it's
bloody obvious how you feel about tribbles.
On 3/21/19, qurgh lungqIj <qurgh@wizage.net> wrote:
> I would personally reword things to say it differently. What's the bigger
> idea that you are trying to say?
>
> eg: "I like all animals which are not tribbles" - "I like all animals but I
> dislike tribbles" - "Ha'DIbaH vIparHa' 'ach yIH vIpar"
>
> qurgh
>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 8:17 PM Christa Hansberry <chransberry@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> If I wanted to say, for example, "animals which are not tribbles", how
>> would I do it? I don't think *yIHmey bIHbe'bogh Ha'DIbaHmey('e'?)* would
>> be
>> grammatical... but is there a good way to say it?
>>
>> -QISta'
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