[tlhIngan Hol] action based language

[Russ Perry Jr]

I have notes that there are also versions in Italian, Portuguese, and Czech, though I haven’t seen them myself.  But only English and German have the other (official) books.

Russ

> On Nov 9, 2020, at 4:25 PM, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:
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> [...]
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> I wonder what Okrand's experience with non-English speakers has been.  TKD has only been translated into German AFAIK, or have there been other languages?
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> Voragh
> 
> ------------------------------Original Message------------------------------
> From: Lieven L. Litaer
> 
>> Am 09.11.2020 um 21:13 schrieb Steven Boozer  [Voragh] :
>> Lieven (aka our "Klingon Teacher from Germany"), have you noticed a 
>> similar fixation on missing nouns by German-speaking newbies?
> 
> Yes, that's what I wrote in my initial message, where I said that many Terran languages have that problem.
> 
> As a side note, I was not focussing on verbs that can be used as nouns nouns, such as "drink" or "sleep". The obervation was a lot more that people tend to use "real" nouns which describe an action. Here are ome examples that we would be able to translate using verbs:
> 
> "What is the definition of xyz?"
> --> "how is xyz defined"
> 
> "What is your preferation?"
> --> What do your prefer?
> 
> "My intention is to..."
> --> "I intend to..."
> 
> "This is my final decision."
> --> I have decided.
> 
> "The Exploration of space..."
> --> "to explore space..."
> 
> "The preparation of the food is complete"
> --> "I have finished cooking"
> 
> And so one. I'm sure there are more cases like this, where we would recast this using a verb.
> 
> And then, suddenly, I just remembered a nice canon example:
>   "My death sentence was commuted"
>   {vImuHlu' net wuqHa'.} (ENT)
> 
> THERE! noun --> verb
> (I'll check if I find more canon proof for this.)
> 
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> Lieven L. Litaer
> aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany"
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