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RE: KLBC: Uselessness & Aiming

• From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: KLBC: Uselessness & Aiming
• Date: Mon, 16 Jun 97 03:02:35 UT

jatlh Qermaq:

> My stab at this, using Clipped Klingon 
> intentionally, as it is clearly the situation clipping exists for:
> 
> qul puS! baH!
> Sight fire! Fire!
> 
> (And yes, it is uncommon to drop both the imperitave verb prefix and the 
noun 
> suffix - but the noun suffix isn't really necessary in this context. What 
> other fire are you gonna sight?)

Yes, dropping all of that is still perfectly understandable as Clipped 
Klingon.

And I have no idea why I keep forgetting the verb {puS} "sight"!  This is the 
second time I've needed it that I've forgotten it!

-- 
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
Stardate 97456.9

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