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-Daq quickie



Greetings, all.                                                                 
                                                                                
(1) A quick question:  is -Daq allowed to go on a time reference?               
    I don't see any reason it shouldn't, but I'd like the grammarians'          
    opinions.  For example, can I say "wa'maH vatlh repDaq" instead of          
    "qaSDI' wa'maH vatlh rep", and "*Sunday*Daq" instead of "qaSDI' *Sunday*"?  
     I have seen the latter of each of these examples used, but I don't         
     remember seeing the former.                                                
                                                                                
(2) With all this talk of new watches, I found something cute...                
    "Big Ben in London" could be written (to be confusing) as                   
    "LondonDaq ben'a'" which to me also sounds something like "many years ago   
    in London".  Of course, you could easily fix this by saying                 
    "*London*Daq *Ben* tin" or even "*London*Daq tlhaq tin", but it's           
    not as much fun that way!  :)                                               
                                                                                
D.A.T.                                                                          
tlhIngan wo' batlh HubwI'                                                       
                                                                               
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