tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 02 15:38:42 1997

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RE: KLBC-First Time

jatlh ghunchu'wI':

> Kenneth Kraft writes:
> ><Mike pongwIj> may be acceptable Clipped Klingon...
> 
> I'm not all that inclined to say things that "may be acceptable".  I want to
> be understood; thus I will endeavor to say things that *are* acceptable.
> 
> But I've never seen any evidence that {Mike pongwIj} *would* be acceptable.
> As I understand it, Clipped Klingon drops only affixes, not entire words.

I once made the mistake of saying this, and was quickly shown the error of my 
ways.  Sometimes words ARE left out of Clipped Klingon.  Consider {chuyDaH}, 
clipped from {chuyDaH yIlaQ}.  There are also the clipped questions we've 
heard.  In these cases it's possible that the question word acts like a 
pronoun, but that still doesn't do much to explain {nuqDaq puchpa'}.

However, I agree.  I advocate saying things which *are* correct, rather than 
which *might* be correct.  You also *might* be talking nonsense.

-- 
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
Stardate 97419.7

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