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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/2/2018 3:26 PM, mayqel qunenoS
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<div dir="auto"><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">The ability of
klingon to provide us with a way to express a longer english
sentence with fewer words, is something which I always liked
in this language. An ability which is often able to impress.</span></div>
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style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br>
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<div dir="auto"><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">But the
positve impression created by that ability fades, when we come
across the need to express something simple, only to realize
that because there are no tools to do so, we need to pause
whatever it was we were writing, only to start describing in
multiple sentences something which should be expressed in just
a few words.</span></div>
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<p>Except it goes in the opposite direction as well. You like it
when Klingon says simply what English expresses only with
complexity, but you dislike it when English (or Greek) says simply
what Klingon expresses only with complexity.</p>
<p>It's exactly the same thing. Klingon is not designed to be the
most efficient language ever, despite the talking points that get
thrown around here sometimes. It has its strengths and its
weaknesses, just like any other language. That's what makes it <i>good.</i><br>
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