tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jul 02 21:02:46 2000
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RE: obtuse question
I also have to highly recommend that you instead just say:
reH Sutay'taHjaj!
Endurance is implied by the context of relationships.
Will
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Anderson [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 4:39 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: obtuse question
>
>
> SuStel:
> >The second problem is that in "May your togetherness endure," "your
> >togetherness" is the subject. /tay'taHghach/ must come last in the
> >sentence.
> >
> >taHjaj tay'taHghachraj.
> >May your togetherness endure.
>
> WARNING -- ADVANCED GRAMMATICAL TOPIC ALERT -- READ WITH CAUTION
>
> The phrase *does* seem appropriate for a toast. Assuming one is going to
> say it with glasses held high, the word order with {-jaj} at the end isn't
> necessarily wrong. But if you do say {tay'taHghachraj taHjaj}, make
> absolutely certain you know exactly why you're doing it that way, and that
> you're doing it in the correct social context. The _Power Klingon_
> audiotape warns in very strong terms about the dangers of getting word
> order reversed in a toast. See the discussion of "toast grammar" on pages
> 25 and 26 of _Klingon for the Galactic Traveler_.
>
> -- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh
>
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