[86667] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Question in Klingon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Sat Oct 24 14:56:33 2009
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:54:01 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <6038b7230910241141t2c957bb3k2764d9cde6b71560@mail.gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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André Müller wrote:
> Dear all,
> I've been racking my brains, dictionaries and Hamlet what might be the
> Klingon word best suitable for the meaning "question, request" (also
> possible are: "invitation, demand"). There are enough verbs to express this,
> but I couldn't find any noun even close to this...
> Does anyone have an idea?
The usual answer to this is: don't express it as a noun; express it as a
verb. The usual follow-up to this is: tell us the full context of what
you're trying to say, so we can better advise you. Don't ask us to
translate words in a contextual vacuum.
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