[Tlhingan-hol] How would you feel about new Klingon morphemes? [was: New expression: Klingon for "dim sum" revealed‏]

[Lieven]

Am 28.04.2016 um 10:00 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:
> "klingons aren't abstract", but this constant argument "klingons
> aren't this and that", insults my intelligence.
>
> a. klngons don't exist
> b. if they did, one would expect from a species which attained space
> travel to be able to express abstract ideas too.

I agree it's a bad excuse if one doesn't find answer to simply say 
"Klingons don't do that", but you still must keep in mind that the 
language has been invented for those klingons, so whenever someone 
argues "Klingon don't x" the complete phrase should say "In the universe 
of the invented race that is called Klingons, those invented people do 
not do xyz."

We all know that Klingons do not exist, but we have learned, for 
instance, that "In the universe of the invented race that is called 
Klingons, those invented people do not say 'hello'." - so we should not 
keep discussing to find a way to say "hello". There is none. It's the 
game, accept the rules.

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Now, giving you a better answer than "Klingon don't say that", I usually 
tend to argue that the Klingon language is much more action related - 
that is verbs - than to nouns:

Don't say "Eating is fun", say "I love to eat."

Don't say "I enjoy a battle", say "I enjoy to fight".

Don't say "A warrior fights to the death.", say "A warrior keeps 
fighting until he dies." - And that's a canon example.

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For the abstract sense, which I understand as "life after death" (?), it 
now need  to be separated: a) regarding klingon belief, one keeps 
fighting in Stovokor, so your "at Death" would be {Suto'vo'qorDaq}. Easy 
answer, right?  ;-)

If you want to talk from a terran point of view, I'd suggest something 
like "life after death" (where death is the moment of dying). And I 
would still go with what had been suggested before: {jIHeghpu'DI' 
jIQubchoH...}.... or did I misunderstand your question?


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Lieven L. Litaer
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