tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Feb 07 15:54:20 1999
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Re: Dreaming in Klingon
ja' Lawrence:
>tlhIngan wa'DIch: HoDma' wISam'a'?
>
>tlhIngan cha'DIch: ghobe'. HoDmaj wISam neH.
>
>Which, I happen to think is particularly nifty.
Nifty it is, but I happen to disagree with its correctness. {HoDmaj}
does not imply a dead body; it is just derogatory. I don't think the
context of a nearby corpse is sufficient to change the implication of
the grammatical construction.
-- ghunchu'wI'