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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Vows

De'vID ([email protected])



be''etlh:
>> pIj maHaghmeH jIvum 'e' vI'Ip

ghunchu'wI':
> I see what you mean about the phrasing here. If you really want the
> {...'e' vI'Ip}, I'm having a hard time coming up with anything better.
> How about {reH maHaghlaH 'e' vIpotlhmoH 'e' vI'Ip}?

I wonder if Klingons have a superstition about avoiding "inauspicious"
sounding words at weddings, the way some Human cultures do. I was
going to suggest that for this sense of "work", I think Klingons would
use {baj} rather than {vum}. But then I realised that I also didn't
like {vum} because of its homophone.

be''etlh:
>> Also, I'm not sure I like the mixture of first and second person, but I'm
>> not sure how to rephrase.

ghunchu'wI':
> You mean the {bangwI' SoHtaH}? I didn't notice anything odd about it.

It was a little out of the place with all the other "I... we..."
sentences. How about {jIyIntaHvIS, reH qaQej}, which places the role
of the "actor" on the speaker, in line with the other sentences?

-- 
De'vID

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