[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon language known issues

[Lieven]

Am 19.10.2015 um 15:42 schrieb qunnoQ HoD:
> I've been meaning to ask..
> tenses,lack of a passive voice etc ? Vocabulary aside,are there in
> Klingon grammar deficiencies which would make the translation of an
> english text into Klingon impossible ?

First that comes to my mind is the "irrealis": There is no way to make a 
difference between "If you are a Klingon" and "if you were a klingon".

But Okrand is knows about that and is working on it.

I'll let others add their problems and wishes, but like to point out 
that you can say almost everything in klingon, and that any missing 
possibility does not make the language less useful. The more klingon you 
learn, the more you will see that you do not need those "missing 
components".
Hell yeah, they've translated Hamlet!

-- 
Lieven L. Litaer
aka Quvar valer 'utlh
Grammarian of the KLI
http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher
http://www.klingonwiki.net