<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi </span><font face="times new roman, serif">mIp'av</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">,</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">thanks for pointing it out.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I've been wondering how to express "to be afraid" on its own, because the suffix </span><font face="times new roman, serif">-vIp </font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">isn't usable as a standalone (as far as I know), so in Klingon it's always "to be afraid </font><u style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">to do/to be </u><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">something".</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I checked other adectives and the closest thing to "scared" I could find was "</span><font face="times new roman, serif">bIt</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">" for "be nervous", but then I felt that even < </font><font face="times new roman, serif">bItqu' </font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">> wouldn't convey quite the same intensity.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="times new roman, serif">nuq DaQub</font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> ?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">~</span><font face="times new roman, serif">mughwI'</font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-10-12 23:58 GMT+02:00 Ed Bailey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bellerophon.modeler@gmail.com" target="_blank">bellerophon.modeler@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif">Aurélie wrote:<br></font><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font face="times new roman, serif">’ach tlhoy bIHvIpchugh, mevlaH tIqchaj ’ej HoHlaH bIH ’e’ vIQub.</font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>With ?{bIHvIpchugh}, you've hit on an interesting construction. I don't believe it works in this case (to me the sentence reads "But if they are excessively afraid to be, their hearts can stop") but I think it's worthy of discussion and should involve the Beginners' Grammarian. vaj vIrI'.<br><br></div><div>~mIp'av<br></div></div></div></div>
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