tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 24 18:46:14 1999
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Re: pabpo' peqIm!
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- Subject: Re: pabpo' peqIm!
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 21:45:49 EST
jatlh Voragh:
>In general, resist the overpowering beginners' urge to add {-mey} to
>nouns referring to people and just use {-pu'}
toH, not "urge"vam vIghajpu'.
>If anything, a non-Klingon using {-mey} inappriately probably just sounds
>ignorant since aliens aren't expected to understand the subtleties.
Personally, I wouldn't consider correct Type 2 noun suffix use a subtlety.
(Although I do occasionally forget to use {-Du'} for body parts.)
>Though in the right circumstances,
>the "scattered all about" connotation can be used to good effect:
>
> muDech petaQmey jay'!
> Bloody hell, I'm SURROUNDED by p'taks!
choHaghmoH!
>AFAIK Okrand has never shown us the plural form of any epithet like {petaQ},
>{Qovpatlh}, {taHqeq}, etc. -- no doubt because they are mostly used in a
>one-on-one confrontation. But the {vIttlhegh} you quoted should have given
you
>the answer: {qoH} "fool, idiot" is, by Klingon standards, a fairly mild
>epithet itself and has been used in the plural:
>
> Hagh qoHpu' neH HeghtaHvIS SuvwI'pu'.
> not qoHpu''e' neH ghIjlu'.
> HIvbe' qoHpu' neH.
jIQochbe'. Unless, of course, the epithet refers to something that isn't
capable of language, as in
De'wI'meyvam vImuSqu'! petaQmey bIH jay'!
- DujHoD