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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Significance of constructed languages

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (DloraH)
Mon Nov 2 19:09:39 2015

From: "DloraH" <seruq@bellsouth.net>
To: <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 18:09:25 -0600
In-Reply-To: <CAP7F2cLD6FNyMprqAvqBbigJui1cJmQXO0znCG2wuZYzW-gj3A@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@kli.org

> > Technically, you COULD use {-ghach} on a bare verb, but 
> > you'd really only do it as a joke or some other intentionally 
> > ungrammatical construction, to call attention to the word in 
> > some oddly special way. Nobody does it in normal 
> > conversation. It ain't no citified way to speak proper Klingon.
> 
> 
> ok, I understand. thank you.

If you find yourself wanting to use -ghach on a bare verb, consider reforming the sentence so that
the verb stays a verb.  Get away from the noun centric English, and think in Klingon, using
"action".


-- DloraH


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