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I've heard that when Marc Okrand invented the Klingon language, he deliberately omitted the verb "to be". So of course for Star Trek VI, they asked him to tran

by _kst_ 5y ago

I've heard that when Marc Okrand invented the Klingon language, he deliberately omitted the verb "to be". So of course for Star Trek VI, they asked him to translate "To be or not to be". Chancellor Gorkon: You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon. General Chang: "taH pagh, taH be?" Reference: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102975/trivia?item=tr1350638 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102975/trivia?item=tr1350638

viciousvoxel 5y ago
From the link it sounds like Okrand basically wanted Klingon to use stative verbs with no copula. Actually, many languages function that way, i.e. Mandarin. As an aside, while Hebrew has "to be", it does not have a present tense.