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Re: rejmorgh yIDaQo'!

Alan Anderson ([email protected])

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: rejmorgh yIDaQo'!
• Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:15:09 -0400
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ja' Voragh:
>>>    nepwI' Daba'
>>>    He is obviously lying. TKD
>
> lay'tel SIvten:
>> {nepba'} seems more to the point.
>
> You would think so, but I imagine Okrand was trying to be a bit
> unpredictable.

I think it's more likely that he was doing a bit of backfitting to an  
accidental extra syllable spoken by the actor in the Next Generation  
episode.  It sounds a lot like {nepwI' Daba'}, but if you listen  
carefully and watch his mouth, he's apparently saying "nepwee ga-ba",  
which I figure was originally {nepwI' ghaH} in the script.

> We have only two other examples of the under-utilized verb
> {Da} "behave as, act in the manner of" in canon:...

Both {Da} and {-ba'} (v6) appear in the addendum.  Most of the  
addendum's words can be found in the early TNG episodes and sixth  
Trek movie.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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