[tlhIngan Hol] look what the cat dragged in

[Will Martin]

Usually, we just sigh, but if we sigh something, the something is an utterance. Lewis Carol’s sentence could have validly been expressed in English as “The Mock Title sighed at last, ‘Once, I was a real Turtle.” Meanwhile, in Klingon, we’d say it more like Lewis Carol did:

Dul [Mock Tutle]. jatlh. [Once, I was a real Turtle.]

> On Nov 9, 2021, at 4:33 PM, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> 
>  
> “Once,” said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, “I was a real Turtle.”
>    -- (Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)
>  
> Voragh
>  
> From: tlhIngan-Hol On Behalf Of Alan Anderson
> 
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 10:24 AM mayqel qunen'oS <mihkoun at gmail.com <mailto:mihkoun at gmail.com>> wrote:
> I mean, is {Dul} a "sigh"? Or is it "to sigh"?
>  
> The explanation is clear in the Appendix of the book itself.
> "To sigh is {Dul}. This verb takes no object." (page 238) 
> 
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