[Tlhingan-hol] Why Klingon is perfect

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pupbe'bej mu'ghomwij 'ej 'oHDaq SaH mu'tlhegh puS. wej SaD wejmaH cha' mu'qoq ngaS.

> In my dictionary, I have a notation for (whenever I think to use it)
> “derivative”. By this, {ghoj} is marked “no” and {ghojmoH} is marked “yes”.
> When I search my dictionary for words not marked as derivative, I get 2,477
> words. Without that filter, I have 2,828 words.

ghunwI' jIHbe' 'a tlhIngan Hol vIghojchoHtaHvIS De'wI' QeD ghomvaD qonwI' vIDataH.
 
ghojmeH laHwIj vIQIjmeH mu'tay' qawlaHghachwIj vIqel. 'a SIbI' pab vIyajmo' mu'tay' vIbuSchoH.



> > On Jan 22, 2016, at 10:47 AM, mayql qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > lieven :
> >
> >> This happens with most languages. Some are easy to translate, other
> >> nearly impossible, but if one knows nothing of a language, it's hard
> >> for any language.
> >
> > I think that for Klingon it is way more difficult than other languages
> > ; When I learned english, very soon after I started learning, I could
> > take a dictionary and translate virtually everything..
> >
> > lieven :
> >
> >> The latest word count I did revealed about 90 suffixes and about
> >> 1960 single words.
> >
> > ok, you're right. However it all depends on how one composes his
> > dictionary, I created mine to be English-Klingon and I wrote it in an
> > "expanded" way ; for example I have an entry <aid, assistance boQ>,
> > and another entry <assistance, aid boQ>. The reason is simple ; maybe
> > I'm searching for the word <aid> but I don't remember that it has the
> > synonym <assistance>. If I only have <assistance, aid boQ> then I
> > wouldn't find what I wanted. In this way my dictionary has 3573 words.
> > I wrote however that Klingon has 2700 words, because I think that
> > lojmIt tI'wI' nuv had wrote so some time ago, so I thought "who am I
> > to argue ?" hehehe
> >
> 
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