[88879] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: On the interaction between different verb suffixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucifuge Rofocale)
Mon May 16 03:36:08 2011
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 08:26:22 +0100 (BST)
From: Lucifuge Rofocale <fiat_knox@yahoo.co.uk>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <F52986192E9FE346B0B7EF3D6F98E87710AB82F0@EXDB3.ug.kth.se>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
> Aye, the reason I bring this up is actually because I
> recently told somebody «tlhIngan Hol Daghoj DaneHchugh
> qaQaHlaH 'ej qaQaHqang» {If you want to learn Klingon, I'm
> willing and able to help you.}, and wondered if perhaps I
> could shorten this sentence by changing qaQaHlaH 'ej
> qaQaHqang into qaQaHqanglaH.
I have no objections. tlhIngan Hol has features which allow for compression and abbreviation to as short a length as possible, providing the context remains clear in the rest of the speech.
Witness Clipped Klingon, the battle language - the ultimate expression of Klingon linguistic brevity.
qaQaHqanglaH works - even as a one-word sentence - if you and the recipient both understand the context of the conversation, namely in this case the discussion of teaching the recipient Klingon.
So you could get away with <<tlhIngan Hol DaHaD DaneH'a'? qaQaHqanglaH.>>
