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RE: tea for two

• From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: tea for two
• Date: Thu, 16 Jan 97 00:23:18 UT

This is no longer KLBC material, so I'm pulling it.

January 15, 1997 6:34 AM EST, jatlh HurghwI':

> >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?

The Klingon is speaking in one of the regional dialects.  It actually sounds 
more like {duj vets 'o nuk, rIyn?}, where {d}, {s} and {k} represent the 
English sounds of those letters.

Also, listen to the Power Klingon section on dialects.  One of the sample 
regional sentences is {Soj vets 'o nuq}, or something like it.

In both cases, there is no {-'e'} at the end.  Those foolish hinterlanders!

-- 
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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