[212] in tlhIngan-Hol
double negatives
dcctdw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dcctdw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Feb 16 19:20:50 1992
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From: mosquito@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 92 01:51:40 -0500
Are there double negatives in Klingon?
Example:
English:
I don't know anything. or
I know nothing.
Spanish:
Yo no se nada
I don't know nothing.
Klingon:
1. pagh vIsopbe'.
2. vay' vIsopbe'.
3. pagh vIsop.
#3 looks like it should be good. Not sure about 1 or 2, though. I would
guess, though, that only one would be acceptable to mean "I don't know
anything".
On a totally unrelated topic, do people have other examples of Vulcan stuff?
I've been trying to figure out the various words, and given the low repetition
rate, it was hard. I was helped, though, by the fact that there seemed to
be lots of cognates with English and Romance languages, and was able to deduce
from that and from punctuation that the sentence structure followed English
fairly closely, except that possessives changed the word instead of adding
another one, and that given the irregularity of this, I would hypothesize
there are a number of different "declensions" in Vulcan. I'd like to see
if anything else had been printed, though. Krankor, I remember you making
noises about having some small book with it. Or do I remember wrong?
