[Tlhingan-hol] Google Search in Klingon

[Philip Newton]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 21:48, ghunchu'wI' 'utlh <qunchuy at alcaco.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Josh Badgley <joshbadgley at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I've noticed  the use of imperatives on Facebook as well...like <latlh tI'ang>  or <yIteq>...I understand it, but it's kind of weird.  Or maybe 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 at gmail.com>