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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Google Search in Klingon

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI' 'utlh)
Thu Sep 22 15:49:31 2011

In-Reply-To: <SNT106-DS1193EA890D2E86EBE08E00A10C0@phx.gbl>
From: "ghunchu'wI' 'utlh" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:48:26 -0400
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Josh Badgley <joshbadgley@hotmail.com> wro=
te:
> I've noticed =A0the use of imperatives on Facebook as well...like <latlh =
tI'ang> =A0or <yIteq>...I understand it, but it's kind of weird. =A0Or mayb=
e it's more authentically Klingon and I'm just too new at this language to =
appreciate it.

chay' taQ? ra'bej je DIvI' Hol: "Send" "Reply" "Discard" "Move" "Compose" t=
Iqel.

My first impulse is to go with clipped Klingon. For most commands, it
seems right to use the verb with no affixes. So "logout" is just
{mej}, "translate" would be {mugh}, "search" ends up as {nej}, etc.

Or maybe "search" as a verb should be {wam}, and {chon} as a noun.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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