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

[SuStel]

On 4/28/2016 4:00 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
> De'vID:
>> What sense of "at death" do you have in mind
>> that can't be expressed as {HeghDI'}, {Heghmo'}
> the abstract sense that is conveyed by the phrase "at death I
> realized.." ;

targh vIje' 'e' vIlIj 'e' vItlhoj jIHeghlI'DI'.

>   now, I know that someone is ready to hit reply and say
> "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 can accept the argument that nothing and noone is perfect. I can
> accept the argument that 'oqranD, of course couldn't invent a language
> which would contain everything anyone could ever desire. but the
> argument "klingons wouldn't do that", is the money laundring
> linguistic equivalent of "we don't want to admit that there are things
> missing, so we will just keep making up lame excuses to compensate".

jIQochbe'chu'. munuQbej je meqqoqvam. batlh bIjatlhpu'.

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