tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Oct 23 11:16:10 1998
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RE: 'ach
- From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: 'ach
- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:12:45 -0700
lab K'ryntes:
> TKD p.55 'ach is sometimes shortened to 'a.
> Does it matter when? Are they simply interchangeable? I have to ask
> because when the dictionary says things are "possible" or "sometimes
> occur" I'm not sure if that's a green light or a red light.
They are completely interchangeable. In my experience, <'ach> is almost
universally used in written Klingon, but <'a> is used almost as much as
<'ach> in conversation. Note that this says nothing about how Klingons use
them, just about how we (humans who have never met a Klingon) use them.
Similar interchangeable pairs are <HISlaH> and <HIja'> for "yes", and <SaD>
and <SanID> for "thousand".
pagh
Beginners' Grammarian