[Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Shopping

[ghunchu'wI' 'utlh]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com> wrote:
> (Can the verb
> {SIS} even take an overt subject in Klingon? It can't really in
> English - *"the cloud rains" or *"the sky rains" seems off to me.)

Yes, {SIS} has a subject.

See http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/1998/May/msg00518.html where
DloraH reported a conversation he had with Marc Okrand:
> SISlu', altho grammaticlly correct, he didn't particularly like.  Someone
> COULD use it but to me it sounds like they skipped science class and don't
> know what the subject is.
> You can also give it an object and say things like the clouds rained down
> cats and dogs. ...or something like that; you get the idea.

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