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Re: imperative + -jaj

QeS lagh ([email protected])

• From: "QeS lagh" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: imperative + -jaj
• Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:00:38 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Voragh:

>There's an exception to every descriptive rule, particularly those having 
>to do with "natural" languages (as Klingon purports to be).  You'll have 
>fewer headaches if you mentally insert the words "almost" or "in the vast 
>majority of cases" before every instance of "always" or "never" in TKD.

Yeah, that's what I meant. "Never" is an awful long time. {{:)

I'd see {wo' DevtaHjaj ghawran} as an intentional ungrammaticality used for 
rhetorical effect; it draws the attention to {DevtaHjaj} and particularly 
the suffix {-taH}, and that makes it stand out in the listener's mind: "May 
Gowron CONTINUE to lead the Empire!"

QeS lagh

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