tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 17 04:03:00 1997
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KLBC: tea for two
- From: [email protected] (Bill Willmerdinger)
- Subject: KLBC: tea for two
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:28:02
>>> 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' "
Of course, it *was* dialect, and not pronounced properly. Which is why there
were Klingonists wandering around the qep'a' last year asking each other
"Dujvets o nook, reen?"
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