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Re: Klingon WOTD: wej (adv)

QeS lagh ([email protected]) 

ghItlhpu' Voragh:

>If the statement is accompanied by an action, then that's the context.  
>E.g. If the lookout suddenly moves out of the light into the foliage or 
>puts a hand over your mouth, then he's probably saying {wej} "three" -- and 
>they're coming your way!  If he's acting nonchalant, careless, yawning and 
>making no attempt to get out of sight, then he probably saying {wej} "not 
>yet".

>Native speakers automatically filter out the inappropriate options when it 
>comes to homophones.  As foreign speakers, we have to do this manually, as 
>it were.

I recall some years ago now having an MSN conversation with Tad. At the 
time, I was very shaky with even my written Klingon, and so I was having to 
consult TKD at most turns. I was only sure of the suffixes and the numbers; 
everything else I was still very unskilled with.

So Tad says to me {wej Qagh DarInmoHpu'}, and sends me frantically digging 
back through the rest of the conversation to try and find the three mistakes 
I made. It took me nearly five minutes before I realised that he was 
actually *complimenting* me. {{:)

QeS lagh

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