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Re: Klingon WOTD: wej (adv)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: wej (adv)
• Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:12:09 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

De'vID:
> >The difference in stress is a good point.  Now, do we know
> >how the following sentences are stressed?
> >  <wej vIlegh> "I don't see him/her/them yet"
> >  <wej vIlegh> "I see three (of them)"
> >Can we infer anything from TKD or the tapes about where the
> >stress falls on each of the above sentences?

QeS lagh:
>Unfortunately, I don't own the tapes, so I can't make any judgements based
>on those. But just going from the stress descriptions in TKD, I suspect that
>these sentences would be true homophones, even suprasegmentally. Does {wej},
>in either of its forms, appear on the tapes?

AFAIK only {wej} "three" is heard, spoken by Okrand on CK:

   wej tlhInganpu' yoH
   three brave Klingons  CK

   SoHvaD 'uQ wej vIqem.
   I'll bring you dinner number three. CK

   pa' cha'maH wej 'oH pa'lIj'e'.
   Your room is number 23. CK

{wej} "not yet" is not heard on the tapes, but only in ST3 spoken by 
Christopher Lloyd (Kruge):

   wej... wej.
   [Wait. Wait. (CC)] ST3



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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