[Tlhingan-hol] KLBC : Sentences as objects

[Will Martin]

I did not intend to imply anything positive or negative about any of these options. I listed them in order of commonality. Most often, people follow the rule and let context and ambiguity reign. I didn’t say that was a bad thing.

I’ve heard people actively choose to ignore the rule, hence option 2.

I thought option 3 would be a solution for those who don’t like the first two options, and it would make use of a rare example from canon.

For myself, I’ll probably choose option 1, unless I really mean {rIntaH}.

pItlh
lojmIt tI'wI'nuv



> On Dec 18, 2015, at 9:22 AM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
> 
> 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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