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

mayql qunenoS mihkoun at gmail.com
Thu Mar 3 02:56:30 PST 2016


tulughchoHmoHmo' voragh SuStel je tlho' vIyIn.
voragh and SuStel, because you corrected me I appreciate it.

mayqel mIv Hurgh qunnoq

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 12:08 AM, lojmIttI'wI'nuv
<lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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