tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 04 18:49:06 1998
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RE: KLBC -is this right?
ja' pagh:
>...Clipped Klingon drops out inessential parts of sentences to express
>things even more economically than regular Klingon. In clipped Klingon,
><nuqDaq X> means "Where is X?", so your sentence (with the proper spelling
>of <Qo'noS>) would be correct in some contexts, like a casual conversation
>or a battle on a Klingon ship.
These "inessential parts" can be left out only because there are clues
to their meaning outside the sentence. If you're shouting in someone's
face <yaj'a'?>, for example, you're probably not demanding to know if
someone *else* understood something. :-)
I tend to view messages on this mailing list as being somewhat more formal
than a "casual conversation," by the way. With the number of beginners
and nit-pickers reading, it seems to me that everyone is better off if we
use Clipped Klingon sparingly here.
-- ghunchu'wI'