[2575] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: -bogh question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 17 11:59:54 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 94 16:41:09 GMT
charghwI' writes:
>WHEN YOU PUT A LOT OF EFFORT INTO SEARCHING HOW BEST TO EXPRESS
>VARIATIONS ON THE VERB "TO BE", ODDS ARE YOU ARE MISSING THE POINT. It just
>doesn't HAPPEN all that often in Klingon. It does happen, but not very often.
>Klingons generally tend to be more interested in what things DO than in what
>things ARE. I'm reminded of Worf's "You mean we're just supposed to SIT
>here?" Humans be. Klingons do.
Have tlhIngan-Hol members heard of the language E-prime? E-prime consists
of English with all forms of the verb "to be" omitted. Try translating
English text first into E-prime, before translating to Klingon, to get rid
of the ubiquitous "be".
E-prime has other purposes, but I'll let people discover them for themselves.
If you find E-prime difficult to write in, take encouragement by noticing
that I have written this message entirely in E-prime.
-- ____
Richard Kennaway __\_ / School of Information Systems
jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk \ X/ University of East Anglia
\/ Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K.
