tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 29 09:08:01 1997
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Re: vaj KLBC
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: vaj KLBC
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 11:04:18 -0500 (CDT)
: In a message dated 97-04-28 04:12:15 EDT, SuStel writes:
: << mu'ghomwIj wa'DIch qI'ta' Okrand, vaj
: > vIlo'laHbe'! >>
:
: TKD p56 indicates {vaj} is an Adverb. TKW p151 uses it in: {nuHlIj DawIvpu
: vaj yISuv} and translates {vaj} as "so..." I can find no instance of {vaj}'s
: having been used after a V9. Can you? Can you enlighten me on the usage of
: {vaj}, please.
vaj so, then, thus, in that case (adv)
- bIjeghbe'chugh vaj bIHegh Surrender or die! TKD
- bIje'be'chugh vaj bIHegh Buy or die! CK
- naDev juHlIjDaq cha'logh jISopneSchugh vaj jIquv
It would be an honor to eat twice here at your house, your Honor. PK
- qorDu' SaHlu'chugh 'ej matlhlu'chugh vaj wa' tlhIngan ghob potlhqu'
devotion and loyalty to family is one of the most important Klingon
virtues. S13
- nuHlIj DawIvpu', vaj yISuv You have chosen your weapon, so fight! TKW
Are you sure you meant a Type 9 suffix (i.e. the syntactic markers {-chugh}
etc.)? Sustel didn't use one in the bit you quoted so I don't understand
your question.
: We know from TKD that {qI'} means "sign (a treaty)." How do we know we can
: use it for "sign (a book)?" Please tell me your source.
:
: peHruS
I thought you were agitating for the expansion of tlhIngan Hol. I put the
reverse question to you: How do we know we *can't* use it for "sign (a
book)?" Please tell me *your* source. Before anyone asks, {qI'} isn't used
anywhere in canon. Which of course is the problem.
Hmmm... looking at it, I wonder whether {qI'} wasn't inspired by "Khitomer"
(spelled {QI'tomer} in Hol but pronounced "KIT-uh-myrrh" in English) -- the
place where the Federation-Klingon peace treaty was signed in ST6. I don't
have my TKD with me at work--is it from the appendix of material from ST5 & ST6?
-- Voragh