tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 29 09:18:27 1996
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Re: Politeness and <-jaj>
- From: Niall Hosking <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Politeness and <-jaj>
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 17:18:08 +0100 (BST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Douglas A. McLeod" at Apr 29, 96 07:40:10 am
>
> Is it stretching the sense of the suffix <-jaj> too far to use it to
> express politeness?
>
> A: puchpa'Daq jIjaHlaH'a'?
> B: puchpa'Daq jIjaHjaj'a'? yIjatlh.
> A: puchpa'Daq jIjaHjaj'a'?
> B: mI' wa''a'?
> A: mI' cha'.
> B: yIghoS.
>
I would have thought that a Klingon would not 'ask' to go somewhere like
the bathroom - particularly, not politely - if he/she were to say
anything at all, they would simply state that they were going -
politeness is a Federation concept, not one that a true 'warrior'
subscribes to. Or so reading TKW seems to imply :)
qSeroHS veyn
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Niall Hosking
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