[tlhIngan Hol] «jIH je» and variations

[SuStel]

On 11/21/2022 2:22 PM, Will Martin via tlhIngan-Hol wrote:
> 3. Would a human speaking Klingon with the language resources we now 
> have understand you if you said this? Answer: Yes.

More specifically, "Would a native English speaker speaking Klingon with 
the language resources we now have understand you if you said this?" 
Answer: Yes. Why? Because *jIH je* is just the word for /me/ followed by 
the word for /too./

Because let's face it: when one of us says *jIH je,* they're not 
thinking "I'm adding myself to the end of the previous speaker's subject 
and following it with a conjunction to make it seem like a natural 
continuation of the subject." They're thinking "*jIH* is /me/ and *je* 
is /too,/ so *jIH je* is /me too./" Any other explanation is just an 
attempt to retroactively explain away this habit.

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SuStel
http://trimboli.name
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