[tlhIngan Hol] doubly {-meH}ed nouns
SuStel
sustel at trimboli.name
Wed May 15 12:48:44 PDT 2019
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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SuStel
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