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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/29/2020 9:00 AM, Will Martin
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<div class="">The thing that Maltz seemed to be revealing is that
instead of, as in English, saying “I am reading to you from a
book,” or “I am reading a book to you,” which implies, but does
not explicitly state that I am making sounds from my mouth while
reading in order to share the contents of the book with you, a
Klingon makes the more obvious and clear statement that I am
speaking the book’s words. It’s another example of Okrand’s
inventive capacity to see an activity from an alien perspective,
instead of just using the same phrasing we’d use in English.</div>
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<div class="">It makes sense in English. We just never say it that
way. It would sound alien to say it that way.</div>
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<div class="">Wow. Klingons are aliens. No wonder they say it that
way.</div>
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<p>I don't see this as any kind of consequence of Klingons being
alien. I see this as a consequence for there being no adverbial <i>aloud</i>
in Klingon. (What Okrand replied to was the phrase <i>read aloud,</i>
which DOES explicitly state that you are making sounds from your
mouth while reading, but DOESN'T say anything about sharing the
content of those words with someone else, and neither does his
Klingon rendition.)<br>
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<p>What does <i>read aloud</i> mean? It means to speak written
words. It's not particularly alien that a Klingon way of saying
this is <i>say book words.</i> This isn't any more obvious or
clear than the English <i>read aloud.</i> This is just a
different language using a different set of words to refer to the
same concept. Every language does this, not just those of
extraterrestrials.<br>
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