[99129] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Too short
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SuStel)
Wed Jul 2 10:41:36 2014
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 10:41:25 -0400
From: SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <CC8D2395-9DF1-442C-A8C5-BAE8E86481BB@gmail.com>
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On 7/2/2014 10:23 AM, lojmitti7wi7nuv@gmail.com wrote:
> There's still the issue of "A, B, C, and D" being the way you use
> commas and conjunctions in English for either nouns or verbs, while
> nouns in Klingon would be {A, B, C, D je} and verbs would be {A 'ej B
> 'ej C 'ej D}.
There is a canonical example of A, B, 'ej C. I can't remember what it
is. Possibly on a Skybox card?
> I could easily be wrong because canon seems to omit and avoid this
> kind of listing of verbs. Okrand even goes to lengths like {tInbogh
> Doch Doq} to describe a "big red thing" to avoid dealing with giving
> a noun two adjectives.
I don't remember anything in the form of {tInbogh Doch Doq}, though it's
perfectly grammatical. We do have phrases of the forms {tInbogh Doch 'ej
Doqbogh} and {tInbogh 'ej Doqbogh Doch}.
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SuStel
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