[85448] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon Ad for my new novel!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Sat May 16 16:41:38 2009
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 16:38:20 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <3F8EF7C6-1AC9-4F85-B3C3-77B910F017DD@klingonguy.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen wrote:
> ghItlh Doq:
>> DubtaHba' tlhIngan Hol laHlIj.
>
> Clearly your suffix order error has been included as a test.
>
> Personally, I don't like N-N-N constructions. They feel clunky to me.
> I'd have recast this as a complex sentence, thusly:
>
> tlhIngan Hol lo'meH Dubba'taH laHlIj.
>
> Or something similar. Of course, I am not one of the grammarians, and
> there may be other errors creeping in that I fail to see.
"Your ability obviously continues to improve in order for it to use
Klingon." A purpose clause is the wrong tool here.
Overly long genitive constructions are poor style, but /tlhIngan Hol/ is
so common as to seem a single unit; it does not overburden the genitive
construction.
--
David Trimboli
http://www.trimboli.name/
