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Re: {pagh Doch} or {pagh Dochmey}? (Fwd: [Question #76058]: Klingon plural expression is this: Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n > 1)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI')
Wed Jul 15 07:52:40 2009
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From: "ghunchu'wI'" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:47:53 -0400
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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On Jul 14, 2009, at 10:49 PM, Doq wrote:
> ...the kind of grammatical
> redundancy present in the second one is rare in Klingon.
It's somewhat rare in Klingon spoken by us Terrans. That could be
due to our biases, rather than any such tendency in the language
itself. We have examples where Klingon does repeat words, and Marc
Okrand comments that it doesn't sound awkward to a Klingon. On the
other hand, in the specific context of information being presented by
a computer, I tend to think that clipped Klingon might be
appropriate. That removes redundancy to the point of leaving *no*
grammatical information about certain things.
-- ghunchu'wI'
