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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Question on Klingon Negation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Anderson)
Tue Jun 24 11:55:16 2014
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From: Alan Anderson <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:54:44 -0400
To: Klingon language email discussion forum <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Chelsea Knauf <chelsea.knauf@gmail.com> wrote:
> Newbie here with a question about negation in Klingon. Does Klingon double
> negate?
The simple answer: probably not. We've never seen a double negative in
anything we consider a canonical example, and we know Klingon is able
to *not* use them. One of the Useful Klingon Expressions in the
appendix of The Klingon Dictionary is {not vIleghpu'} "I've never seen
him/her before." That would be a perfect opportunity to use a double
negative, but there isn't one.
-- ghunchu'wI'
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