tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Aug 06 10:27:41 1994
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Re: Have a nice day.
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Have a nice day.
- Date: Sat, 6 Aug 94 22:23:26 EDT
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Heidi Wessman" at Aug 5, 94 3:29 pm
According to Heidi Wessman:
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> QaQ jajnet yIghaj
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> Is that proper grammar?
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> chuQun
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No. Not even close.
When verbs are being used adjectivally, they FOLLOW the nouns
they modify. {jajnet} is not close to being a word. The verb
{ghaj} means "have" in the sense of "possess", not in the many
ways that WE use the word "have". In this case, you really
mean, "Experience a nice day." This might be better expressed
as {QaQjaj jajlIj} or "May your day be good."
Meanwhile, you should recognize that this is not something you
should say to a Klingon, unless you are wearing substantial
body armor or unless that Klingon is stripped of weapons and is
physically restrained. Their tolerence of this kind of
sentiment is well known to be small. It's like walking up to a
guy in leathers on a Harley Davidson motorcycle and say, "Gee,
nice bicycle. Is that a Honda?"
My own way to express such a blessing would be more like:
law'jaj QobmeylIj 'ej Dajjaj.
"May your dangers be many and may they be interesting."
charghwI'