The only thing I can add to this conversation -- and believe me, it's not very useful -- is that when creating the Klingon language, the Powers that Be with Star Trek intentionally left out anything that could be translated "to be." I think it had something to do with the Klingon code of honor and that you either are or you are not -- ("there is no try", to mix my references).
So when they were writing Star Trek VI, which draws heavily from Hamlet and quotes it several times, they were stuck -- because a Klingon had to say, "to be or not to be."
So yeah...
Fantasy languages, grammar, all that jazz. It would be so hard not to write yourself into a corner!
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Date: 14 Feb 2010 06:27 am (UTC)So when they were writing Star Trek VI, which draws heavily from Hamlet and quotes it several times, they were stuck -- because a Klingon had to say, "to be or not to be."
So yeah...
Fantasy languages, grammar, all that jazz. It would be so hard not to write yourself into a corner!