[tlhIngan Hol] expressing ten minutes before dawn

Lieven levinius at gmx.de
Thu Dec 21 06:57:20 PST 2017


Am 21.12.2017 um 11:54 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:
> Anyway, seemingly/apparently, we can't adequately express these kinds of 
> phrases in klingon.
> 
> Which is kind of strange, since "ten minutes before dawn" is a very 
> simple thing to say.

 From a linguistic or semantic point of view, "ten minutes before dawn" 
is NOT an easy thing, and it doesn't make much sense standing alone. 
This phrase contains lots of words that can be intepreted in several 
ways, and the phrase is missing an action, which makes it very 
complicated to express in Klingon.

At this point, I see Q from TNG who says "You still think like a Human".

:-)

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Lieven L. Litaer
aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany"
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