tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 15 09:48:27 1997
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Re: KLBC: tea for two
- From: "eric d. zay" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: tea for two
- Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 12:53:25 -0500
> >You may be right. One canonical example of this is in ST VI. The
warrior
> >at the Morska listening post asks the Enterprise: "Dujvetlh 'oH nuq?."
>
> Why isn't this <nuq'e'>? Is there an exception I've forgoten?
You are right, it should be <nuq'e'>. I think the reason Okrand gave for
the above is that the Klingon at Morska was speaking one of the other
dialects, and that the standard sentence would be:
"Dujvetlh 'oH nuq'e' "
SuSvaj