tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 02 10:00:36 2003
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RE: Um, hello
DloraH wrote:
> > Oh, don't worry about that. I've already been around
> > the web, collecting all the words not included in the
> > dictionary. I've made my own personal dictionary on my
> > computer. It's got just about every canon word you can
> > think of. (Although the definition of one word,
> > noHva'Dut, still eludes me.)
>
>noHva'Dut? Where did you find that?
It's a region on Kronos mentioned in passing in KGT (p. 26):
In a divergence from the majority of Klingon dialects, the speakers of
Sakrej and No'hvadut ({noHva'Dut}) do not follow this pattern. In these
dialects, there is no reforming of the sentences for toasts; the subject
always follows the verb. Thus, as toasts, {jejjaj tajlIj} ("May your
knife be sharp") and {wo' DevtaHjaj ghawran} ("May Gowron continue to
lead the empire") are perfectly acceptable, even though the verb ending
with {-jaj} is not the last thing in the sentence.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons