[tlhIngan Hol] doubly {-meH}ed nouns

[Will Martin]

And how does that teach them how to say actual expressions in Klingon? How many years will it be before they actually make common use of the thing they passionately argued about for a dozen messages in a thread?

I honestly think they’d be much better served if they tried to say a common expression several different ways. Then they’d be learning how to USE the language instead of just how to argue about it.

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> On May 15, 2019, at 3:48 PM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
> 
> On 5/15/2019 3:36 PM, Will Martin wrote:
>> 
>> My point is that Klingon is a language, not a code, and ideally, if you want to actually understand it, you should speak it like a language, instead of taking English text and figuring out how to perfectly encode it into the one and only true and correct method to produce the one and only truely correct translation. That’s not how language works. That’s not how translation works.
>> 
>> For all you native English speakers, do you really believe that if you have an idea, that idea can only be expressed with one specific grammatical construction and word choice in English? Thought = sentence?
>> 
>> That’s an absurd idea.
> 
> Again with the "Klingon is not a code" thing. Nobody here is suggesting it is. They're looking for things that aren't against the rules, but aren't obviously correct, then asking, "Can I do that?"
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