tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 20 08:08:50 2006
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Re: Klingon WOTD: jaS (adverb)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, December 20, 2006.
>
>Klingon word: jaS
>Part of Speech: adverb
>Definition: differently
Never used in canon.
Note that the postulated adverbial *{jaSHa'} "similarly, in the same way"
does not exist. peHruS reported on a conversation he had with Okrand:
At the 2000 qep'a' in conversation with MO, I went over the list
I had prepared of adverbs + {-Ha'}. This was the very one which I
was disappointed to learn from MO himself that it does NOT work.
He never explained why. [...] Merely that (possibly not verbatim):
"I don't think it works." He did not volunteer any other informa-
tion about why it doesn't SEEM to work or what else would work.
peHruS prepared his list after reading Okrand's comment in HolQeD 4.4:
Whether this {-Ha'} can be added to all adverbials is not clear.
The notes taken while working with Maltz indicate that he balked
at {vajHa'} ("not thus?") but accepted {Do'Ha'} "unfortunately".
Information on other adverbials has not yet been uncovered, though
it is probably in the notes somewhere.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons