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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] How many times do we need to repeat the -neS ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven L. Litaer)
Wed Feb 20 09:35:23 2019
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From: "Lieven L. Litaer" <levinius@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:35:16 +0100
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Am 20.02.2019 um 15:21 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:
> Suppose we want to say:
[...]
> If we want to make this sentence honorific, then were do we place the
> -neS ? With the exception of the Dun which is used as an adjective,
> then do we need to place -neS on every single verb of that sentence ?
There's probably no rule about this, so repetition is not wrong. But I
agree it sounds awkward. So for having a good writing style, I would
suggest you only use it once. But to make clear the listener knows you
honor them, you should use the suffix before anything else:
"yIqImneS: Hoch jaj bIvemDI', nIQlIj DatIvmeH, [...]"
But also remember from TKD:
"This suffix is used rather infrequently by Klingons."
So another base for using it only once in a sentence instead of
repeating. I think of the English situation:
Great alien, each day as soon as "your honor" wake up, in order to enjoy
"your honor"s breakfast, if "your honor" eat fifty trees[...]
--
Lieven L. Litaer
aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany"
http://www.klingonisch.de
http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/StarTrekDiscovery
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