[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: nural

[De'vID]

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Christopher Kidder-Mostrom <
cokidder at cbtheatre.org> wrote:

> So, it is then also the word for he/she/it is violent to us?
>

Sort of but not really. {ral} is "be violent" not "be violent to". So if a
Klingon were to try to interpret {nural} as a sentence, it'd be "he/she/it
violents us" or "they violent us". It would sound ungrammatical to them the
same way the corresponding "it violents us" sounds ungrammatical to us.

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De'vID
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