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Re: -Daq on numbers?

Steven Boozer ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

weQqul:
> > very interesting, since i have been told more than once that it can not be
> > used in this way, by more than one person. so you are saying we can use it
> > in this way? are you sure? careful! i dont want to start a war here. LOL

Marc Okrand:
> >>  qep'a' wejDIchDaq jatlhtaH tlhIngan Hol HaDwI'pu'.
> >>  (MO to SuStel, st.klingon 11/96 [untranslated])

Quvar:
>It's Marc Okrand who said {qep'a' wejDIchDaq}, so I think we can assume
>that's correct. I won't add more to that.

Some people think that this should be punctuated {<<qep'a' wejDIch>>Daq} 
"at the Third [KLI] Congress"; that is, Okrand is using {qep'a' wejDIch} as 
the name of the congress and, therefore, {-Daq} isn't really on a number 
per se, but on the end of a proper name.  (Another example might be {veng 
wa'DIchDaq} "in the First City [i.e. the official name of the capital {mon} 
of Kronos]; it's not extant in canon, but it wouldn't be unexpected.)

Another interpretation is that {qep'a' wejDIch} really does refer to a 
physical location:  the room(s) in the hotel where the Congress was taking 
place.



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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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