[Tlhingan-hol] BKP - Klingon

Steven Boozer sboozer at uchicago.edu
Thu Apr 3 07:05:54 PDT 2014


De'vId:
> The fact that it was grammatical makes me think someone we know was involved. 
> From here: http://www.klingon.org/smboard/index.php?topic=2291.0 
>  
>>  bejbogh ghom'a' law' wISIch
>>  We reach a numerous crowd which is watching.

QeS:
>>> It doesn't translate well into English, but in Klingon it's perfectly
>>> well-formed to say {ghom'a' law'} "a many-in-number crowd, a large crowd".

What's wrong with {ghom'a' tIn}?  People always reject {tIn} "be big/large" in favor of {-'a'} or {law'}.

Yet another option is {Hutvagh} "too many people or things in a place all at once".
 

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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons






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