<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 2:39 AM zrajm via tlhIngan-Hol <<a href="mailto:tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org">tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><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 dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 3:17 PM SuStel via tlhIngan-Hol <<a href="mailto:tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org" target="_blank">tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><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">
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<div>I've been studying Welsh for a while. Welsh has a gazillion ways
to say <i>yes</i> or <i>no,</i> and you have to pick the right
one for the right circumstance. If someone asked me <i>Wyt ti'n
hoffi cwrw?</i> ("Do you like beer?") and I answered <i>Naddo</i>
("No" about a past-tense action) instead of <i>Nac ydw</i>
(literally "I am not"), I would have used the language incorrectly
but I daresay I would be understood. I'd just sound like an idiot.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>You're right though, I might sound like an idiot. But maybe we all do when we speak Klingon? It's hard to tell what a Real Klingon would think (but It Is interesting to think about).</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>"Although a good many of the fine points are not covered, the sketch will allow the student of Klingon to figure out what a Klingon is saying and to respond in an intelligible, though somewhat brutish, manner. Most Klingons will never know the difference." — The Klingon Dictionary</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>