[Tlhingan-hol] Greetings from Maltz

[Brent Kesler]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:


> At {qep'a' loSDIch} "Robyn Stewart's idea of {lutu'lu'} as the Klingon
> version of 'whom' got a nod and an explicit lack of contradiction [from
> Okrand]. {naDev tlhInganpu' lutu'lu'} is grammatical, but the {lu-} is more
> often left off."  [ghunchu'wI']
>
> "{lutu'lu'} does NOT translate as 'whom' in any way at all. It is just
> that in English, most people use the word 'who' when formally they should
> be using 'whom', much like most Klingons use the word {tu'lu'} when they
> should be using {lutu'lu'}. In other words, the more formally correct
> sentence is {tlhInganpu' lutu'lu'} though most Klingons most of the time
> would say {tlhInganpu' tu'lu'}."  [charghwI']
>


Once in college, I noticed I said "there's" when I should have said "there
are" (eg, "There's two people waiting outside."). Then I started noticing
myself making this mistake all the time. Then I started noticing other
well-educated people making this mistake all the time. Sometimes a
linguistics habit is so ingrained, you don't notice the grammar. I doubt
Klingons even notice when they say {tu'lu'} instead of {lutu'lu'}.

bI'reng
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