[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: lach

[lojmIttI'wI'nuv]

I, for one, never said I had a problem with a conjunction between two imperatives. I do have a problem with a conjunction between an imperative and a statement. The former basically means “Do these two things”. The latter? I’m not sure what it means.

A conjunction between two statements also makes sense. A conjunction between two questions also makes sense to me, but a conjunction between a question and a statement? or a question and an imperative? These don’t work.

I’m not saying there’s a rule against it. I’m just saying I find it impossible to understand a conjunction attempting to join these different kinds of sentences: statements, questions, & imperatives. Join any two of the same class, no problem. Join between classes? Gibberish.

pItlh
lojmIt tI'wI'nuv



> On Mar 2, 2016, at 2:12 PM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
> 
> On 3/2/2016 1:53 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:
> 
>>   yIn nI' yISIQ 'ej yIchep
>>   Live long and prosper!  (RTm)
>>   [literally "endure a long life..."]
> 
> Ohohoho! A canonical example of <imperative> <conjunction> <imperative>. Not impossible after all! (And notice the violation of the KGT rule: it's not {yIchep'eghmoH}. Naturally, this was written before KGT was published...)
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