On 2/2/2018 1:14 PM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
Perhaps, using the time-honored-qeylIS-approved method of writing in a retarded-multiple-sentence-way, even if it is in order to say the simplest things, is indeed the way to go..
Oh please. What's simple in one language is not necessarily simple in another. The very fact that we have multiple forms of "sentence as object" shows that Klingon is perfectly comfortable with multiple sentences. Canon like *'uSDaj chop; chev* for /chew his arm off!/ shows you don't even need a special grammatical structure to do it. Every simile does this. COMBINING MULTIPLE SENTENCES IS *HOW* KLINGON DOES SIMPLE. The problem you're having isn't that what you want should be simple and it's not; it's that one language has a tool the other doesn't and you miss it. How would you say *SuQomtaH* in Standard American English (that's the newscaster variety)? (Hint: SAE has no /y'all /or /youz/.) Can you say it as simply as the Klingon? In Klingon, it's three syllables. In the simplest and most precise SAE translation, not losing any meaning or adding any ambiguity, I count twelve syllables. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name