tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 24 17:51:59 1995
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Re: qeylIS betleH
On Fri, 24 Nov 1995 [email protected] wrote:
> >Then again, "nuqneH" doesn't "follow the rules" either. If you really
> >wanted to know what someone wanted, you would probably ask: "nuq DaneH?"
>
> As much as I, too, see {maj ram} as very incorrect, {nuqneH} does follow
> "clipped Klingon" rules. :}
Not really; if it were clipped, it'd be /nuq neH/. As it is, we have no
way of forming a compound from a noun, /nuq/, and a verb /neH/. This is
a stylized construction, which you'd expect from a greeting.
> peHruS
--Holtej