The ability of klingon to provide us with a way to express a longer english sentence with fewer words, is something which I always liked in this language. An ability which is often able to impress.

But the positve impression created by that ability fades, when we come across the need to express something simple, only to realize that because there are no tools to do so, we need to pause whatever it was we were writing, only to start describing in multiple sentences something which should be expressed in just a few words.

Except it goes in the opposite direction as well. You like it when Klingon says simply what English expresses only with complexity, but you dislike it when English (or Greek) says simply what Klingon expresses only with complexity.

It's exactly the same thing. Klingon is not designed to be the most efficient language ever, despite the talking points that get thrown around here sometimes. It has its strengths and its weaknesses, just like any other language. That's what makes it good.

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