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RE: Bumper Sticker (was Re: Klingon WOTD: qIm (v))

Heather Myers ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol ghojwI']


jatlh Steven Boozer:

>> I do recall that (as always!) there was some discussion as to whether
>> Okrand was responsible for the bumper sticker (he was a consultant on
the
>> game itself).  Many thought that {qIm} was unnecessarily clipped,
>>expecting {yIqIm tera'ngan}.

jatlh SuStel:

>What?  Why?  Not only is a bumper sticker saying "Attention, Earther!"
a
>PERFECT reason to clip the phrase, it's also the perfect clipping.
/yIqIm/
>means you're only speaking to one Earthling.  But this bumper sticker
might
>be talking to more than one, or it might not.  Clipped, it makes
absolutely
>no difference.  /qIm tera'ngan/, recognized as clipped, means both
>"Attention, Earther!" and "Attention, Earthers!"
>
>The bumper sticker was phrased perfectly, whether Okrand wrote it or
not.

jIjatlh jIH:

When you're driving, there can really only be one person behind you who
can read your bumper sticker, so why not /yIqIm/?  Isn't Clipped Klingon
usually only used in tense situations where using the full version of
words would take too long to be useful?  How does that apply to a bumper
sticker, anyway?

Asking more questions than she's answering,
jI'qel ghojwI'

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