[Tlhingan-hol] Conversational klingon and the use of {nuq}

[mayqel qunenoS]

Qov:
> The longer a Klingon sentence gets the more convoluted it becomes.

'o Qov..

reH lo'laHqu' qeSlIj.
always your advice is precious.

reH SoHvaD ngoDvam vIlIj..
always about you I will remember..

ghIjbogh ghu Ha'DIbaH 'ej tlhabbogh jIHDI'..
when I was a baby monster..

ghIjbogh ghu Ha'DIbaH 'ej tlhabbogh, 'ej ngugh pagh pin'a' ghaj
a stray baby monster..

wa' Ho' neH ghajbogh ghu Ha'DIbaH - Ho' neH lughajmo' Hoch ghu Ha'DIbaHmey -
a baby monster who had only one tooth - because all baby monsters have
only one tooth -

tlhIngan juHlIjDaq choDevta'.
at your klingon house you led me.

'ej choje'choH.
and begun to feed me.

'a jInenchoHDI', muje'choH SuStel lojmIt tI'wI' nuv je.
but when I started to grow, SuStel and lojmIt tI'wI' nuv started to feed me too.

rut jIHvaD Hom lunob De'vID, voragh, Quvar je je.
occasionally De'vID, voragh and lieven threw a bone for me too.

'ej DaH ghIjbogh Ha'DIbaHra' 'ej tlhabbogh jIHchoH.
and now I am your creation.

meqmeymo', lo'laHqu'bej qeSraj ; reH 'e' vIghovrup.
because of these reasons, always I'm ready to acknowledge your advice
as being most precious.

'a {nuq 'oH ..'e'} vImaSbejtaH.
however {nuq 'oH ..'e'} I will definitely continue to prefer.

cpt mayqel

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 1:21 AM, Robyn Stewart <robyn at flyingstart.ca> wrote:
>> Am 30.05.2016 um 12:27 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:
>> > the longer a klingon sentence is, the happier I get !
>
> The longer a Klingon sentence gets the more convoluted it becomes. There is
> not a prize for a long Klingon sentence. If you're sentences are too long to
> easily follow, you are either trying to show off instead of communicate, or
> you are copying the style of a language that uses longer sentences.  Think
> Klingon. Write Klingon.  ESPECIALLY don't extend Klingon sentences by saying
> things in a longer way when there is a shorter way to say it.
>
> Lieven:
>> That sounds like those people who prefer {HISlaH} over {HIja'} simply
>> because they enjoy knowing another word (since HIja' can also mean "tell
>> me").
>
> That's two reasons:
> 1. because they enjoy knowing another word--I won't fault anyone for
> enjoying knowing another word.
> 2. because they want to avoid confusion with "tell me"
>
> They both seem like good reasons.
>
> nuv wa'> mIwwIj vIpegh DaneH'a'?
> nuv cha'> HIja'
>
> DaH ja''a' nuv wa' pagh pegh'a'?
>
> - Qov
>
>
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