tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Sep 08 20:11:31 1996
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Re: -neS (was Re: KLBC)
- From: [email protected] (HoD trI'Qal)
- Subject: Re: -neS (was Re: KLBC)
- Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 23:12:32 -0400
At 10:22 PM 8/30/96 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
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>Oh, you mean call him "Data" and use {-neS} when you speak to him? I suppose
>it's possible, if he's your superior. Even then, it's not required, whereas
>calling oneself "Lord" could be made into a requirement, since it's not an
>established grammatical feature. Do Klingons have a sense of familiar and
>formal?
That's a good question. I suspect they do, because of -oy and -neS, but I
also suspect that it isn't as prevalent as it is in English... or Matlz
would have included it in some of the basic speech he gave us.
>Besides, I kind of liked {De'loD}.
I found that hard to understand. I suspect that it would be more proper to
just say <De'>, and flag it as a name every time... since his name is
"Data"; they just call him "Mr. Data" as they would call John Smith "Mr. Smith".
>SuStel
>Stardate 96665.7
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