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

[DloraH]

> >>    nom leng Hun nom lengqu' lut
> >>    Stories travel faster than a *khrun* (PB 130-131)
> > Interesting sentence construction.  Not the comparative I 
> > would have 
> > expected, but this does have the sort of poetry one would 
> > expect in an opera.
> 
> Keep in mind that paq'batlh uses no punctuation, so it's not 
> necessarily 
> the case that this should be considered a single sentence.

When I read that, I read it as two sentences.  The lack of punctuation did not affect my thought
process, and I went straight to reading it as two sentences.
nom is an adv, not a verb, so this can't be contructed as a usual comparative.  We don't have a way
to say:  n1 [fast] law n2 [fast] puS.
And while lengqu' does seem a little weird at first, he couldn't put the -qu' on the adv could he?


- DloraH