[88880] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: On the interaction between different verb suffixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Stewart)
Tue May 17 20:21:22 2011
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 17:07:43 -0700
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
In-Reply-To: <703552.37567.qm@web24006.mail.ird.yahoo.com>
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Sounds sort of like a request for a bribe to me.
qaQaHqanglaH -- choQaHqangchugh.
At 00:26 16/05/2011, you wrote:
> > 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.>>
