[tlhIngan Hol] Bullets in Klingon

Will Martin lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 08:18:28 PST 2023


qatlho’.

I thought this was true, but I know that there have been revelations that I’ve missed due to extended inattention. It’s good to have this pointed out, for those new to the language, so I’m glad it came up.

pItlh

charghwI’ ‘utlh
(ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)




> On Feb 2, 2023, at 11:15 AM, SuStel via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2/2/2023 11:02 AM, Will Martin via tlhIngan-Hol wrote:
>> I’m sure our canon experts will be happy to clarify whether or not we’ve been given license to use Relative Clauses for parenthetical statements about the Head Noun.
> You're describing the difference between restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses. I believe we still haven't seen nonrestrictive relative clauses.
> 
> To say Our leader, who is fond of knitting, commands us to attend the meeting, you apparently can't say qepDaq majeS 'e' ra' nIq 'e' tIvbogh DevI'ma'. This means something more like Our leader who is fond of knitting (as opposed to our other leader, who isn't) commands us to attend the meeting. You'd have to split this up a bit: qepDaq majeS 'e' ra' DevwI'ma'. (nIq 'e' tIv ghaH.)
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