[Tlhingan-hol] KLBC : Sentences as objects

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Fri Dec 18 06:22:28 PST 2015


On 12/18/2015 7:10 AM, lojmIt tI'wI' nuv wrote:
> Three options:
>
> 1. Follow the rule and don't indicate perfective. Let context and
> ambiguity reign.

You say that like it's a bad thing that Klingon works like a natural 
language in this respect.

> 2. Ignore the rule like most people do and pretend that you just
> forgot it.

For heaven's sake, NO! Most people DO forget, but that's no reason to 
"regularize" the language because you can't be bothered to learn the 
irregular rules.

Don't put aspect suffixes on the second verb. Period.

> 3. Follow everything with {rIn} and smile at the confused look on the
> face of the person to whom you are speaking.

{rIntaH}. But only use it if you actually mean {rIntaH}.

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