tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 27 13:55:05 2004
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Re: 'uD vs. 'uD'a' ?
- From: "QeS lagh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: 'uD vs. 'uD'a' ?
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 06:46:16 +1000
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ghItlhpu' ghunchu'wI':
>Klingon doesn't seem to have very many examples of such shortening. A word
>like {wovmoHwI'} isn't all that long to begin with anyway.
Three syllables is still pretty long; we've got only a few nouns that are
three syllables (Ha'DIbaH, paQDI'norgh, jabbI'ID, HIDjolev are some). True,
verbs can get longer with the addition of suffixes, but I've rarely seen
{-wI'} nouns longer than three syllables. {qIp'eghchoHtaHwI'} would work;
it's just that you see such things very rarely.
>And why do you assume it's a common word that gets used often? Lamps
>aren't
>likely to be important in a battle situation where clipped speech is the
>rule.
>I know *I* rarely speak of light bulbs and fluorescent tubes unless I'm
>replacing one.
{wovmoHwI' yIchu'} "Turn on the light!" is hardly an uncommon sentence;
seems like I'm telling my brothers to do that every single day, and I say it
so often that I want to clip it in *English*, let alone Klingon. :)
QeS lagh
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