tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 24 01:03:07 1997

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Re: maHagh tlhInganpu'



  ja' "Anthony.Appleyard" <[email protected]>:
> Some would say that a noun {tlhInganpu'} / "Klingons" is 1st-person when the
> speaker is one of them, or 2nd-person when the speaker is talking to them.

  jang Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
> Those who would say that are disagreeing with TKD. According to section 5.6
> it is merely a word used in direct address, grammatically unrelated to the
> rest of the sentence.

  In Latin the equivalent form {Tlingani ridimus} is legal: compare the
well-known speech by arena gladiators {Ave Caesar, morituri te salutamus} =
{yIpIv, Caesar, pIvan HeghwI'pu'}


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