[tlhIngan Hol] {SorHa'} ? Of course.. But with jay' what ?

mayqel qunenoS mihkoun at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 05:12:14 PDT 2016


or if I say:

{Huch Danojta'bogh vIpe'ta'}

you will accept it as well ?

qunnoq
ghogh HablI'wIjvo' vIngeHta'

On 19 Aug 2016 3:08 p.m., "mayqel qunenoS" <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:

> ok, I'll play along..
>
> So, if I say : {toQDuj QuQ ruptaH pIvlob chorgh}
>
> you will accept it ?
>
> qunnoq
> ghogh HablI'wIjvo' vIngeHta'
>
> On 19 Aug 2016 3:02 p.m., "SuStel" <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
>
>> On 8/19/2016 5:15 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
>>
>> So, we have the word {SorHa'}, meaning "to speak metaphorically".
>>
>> On the other hand, we can't use klingon words metaphorically, because
>> we always need to take them on their most myopic, strict, and
>> narrow-minded meaning.
>>
>>
>> You are mistaken. Feel free to speak metaphorically. What we can't do is
>> assume that an *idiom* from another language will work in Klingon.
>>
>> --
>> SuStelhttp://trimboli.name
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> tlhIngan-Hol mailing list
>> tlhIngan-Hol at lists.kli.org
>> http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org
>>
>>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.kli.org/pipermail/tlhingan-hol-kli.org/attachments/20160819/f6575121/attachment.htm>


More information about the tlhIngan-Hol mailing list