[tlhIngan Hol] Expressing "must"

[SuStel]

On 11/14/2016 4:41 PM, Lieven wrote:
>
> Was it not you who said two days ago that you need to scramble the 
> english words in your brain to get one idea? I think this is one more. 
> From my point of view, I think it's okay to say {-nIS} = "must/need".

But there /is/ a distinction between being required to do something and 
having a need to do something. It is not at all clear to me that Klingon 
*-nIS* covers both.

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SuStel
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