On 11/20/2022 12:22 AM, zrajm via
tlhIngan-Hol wrote:
Or maybe the response could even abbreviated
to just «je»? – Though I figure the pronoun is quite likely
to be used for emphasis since that is new information the
responder is wishing to convey.
So, what do you think? Is «je jIH» better than
«jIH je»? And what are you arguments for your belief? – Or
should the phrase be avoided altogether and expressed some
other way? How?
In my opinion, the Klingon equivalent to me too is to
repeat the verb in the first person and add a je. For
example:
Klingon 1: romuluSnganpu' vImuS! I hate Romulans!
Klingon 2: vImuS je! Me too!
Klingon 1: SIbI' ruchbe'chugh chaH, jImej. If they
don't get on with it right now, I'm leaving.
Klingon 2: jImej je! Me too!
I really like this approach. :)
Though it makes me think that Klingon 2 might abbreviate even more and just say «je» alone (skipping the verb altogether). – This is a common practice in (at least Swedish) sign language, though it seems a bit weird from an English speaker's perspective.
Do you think that you (prior to this discussion) would've understood if just a naked «je» was used? Or is that to abbreviate too much?
Klingon 1: romuluSnganpu' vImuS! I hate Romulans!
Klingon 2: je! Me too!
If the above is intelligible, it might only be so because the verb prefix is unchanged, so that if the verb needs a prefix change between the two statements, the whole verb would need to be repeated:
Klingon 1: romuluSnganpu' muS! She/he hates Romulans!
Klingon 2: vImuS je! Me too!
/zrajm