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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Google Search in Klingon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Newton)
Fri Sep 23 07:12:48 2011
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From: Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:23:48 +0200
To: tlhIngan-Hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 21:48, ghunchu'wI' 'utlh <qunchuy@alcaco.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Josh Badgley <joshbadgley@hotmail.com> w=
rote:
>> 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 may=
be 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"=
tIqel.
jIQoch. ra'bejbe' 'e' vIHar. *infinitive* bIH 'e' vIHar.
It's hard to tell due to the paucity of inflection in English, so I
can see how my argument is not very convincing.
> 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.
That could work.
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
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