tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 29 19:15:14 1996
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Re: Politeness and <-jaj>
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Politeness and <-jaj>
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 21:17:58 -0500
marqoS writes:
>And even if politeness were a Klingon concept, {-jaj} would not be the
>way to express it. "May" as in "May I go to the bathroom?" and "May"
>as in "May you live long and prosper!" are two completely different
>concepts that just happen to be expressed by the same word in English.
>I would not use {-jaj} for the former meaning any more than I would use
>it to mean the fifth month of the year.
Right. The closest thing to "may I?" is {yIchaw'}, or just maybe a wimpy
{Dachaw''a'?}.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj