On 4/29/2021 11:08 AM, Will Martin wrote:
And just to offer other alternatives:
Honestly, I think the most obvious way to order two bloodwines is to say: *'Iw HIq. cha' HIvje'.*/Bloodwine. Two glasses. / Everyone's always making intricate constructions in order to force one English sentence into one complete Klingon sentence, but I honestly think Klingon is more flexible than that. Complete sentences are not necessary. Single sentences are not necessary. It feels much more natural in Klingon to just shove pieces together in ways that makes the context clear. I honestly think, based not so much on canon but on how the language just naturally seems to work, that we over-translate all the time. *warnagh HIngev! wej tlho'ren.*/Sell me three klorns of warnog!/ *He chu' yIghoS. DIvI' neHmaH.*/Set a course for the Federation Neutral Zone./ *DoS yIbuS! QuQ neH.*/Target engine only!/ // -- SuStel http://trimboli.name