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<p>> <span style="background-color:white;">If your "special occasion" is "anytime I want to use aspect and
<strong>-jaj,</strong>"<br>
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<p><span style="background-color:white;">> then the rule is completely abandoned. When would you
<em>not</em> do it?<br>
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<p><span style="background-color:white;">That would seem to describe every instance of mu'mey ru': You only use it when you want to use it.<br>
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<p><span style="background-color:white;">So far, I believe I've only ever used it when talking about refugees, in the sense that I want all who are currently fleeing to have-successfully-fled. I quite like the contrast between -taH and -ta' and find it quite
effective. Other times I've used something like {Haw'ta'wI'pu' mojjaj Hoch Haw'taHwI'pu'.}, but that's less punchy to my mind.<br>
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<p><span style="background-color:white;">So, I suppose I'd use it when I think the desired effect is worth bending the rules, and otherwise not.<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 28, 2017 02:24<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Marc Okrand talking about DSC (spoilerfree)</font>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/27/2017 7:08 PM, Felix Malmenbeck wrote:<br>
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<p><span style="background-color:white">> But if you always do that, they're not really
<strong>mu'mey ru'.</strong> You're taking the exceptions to the<br>
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<p><span style="background-color:white">> language and applying them generally, while telling yourself that you're not really doing that.<br>
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<p><span style="background-color:white">I don't really think that's true, unless it catches on in a big way and starts being considered "correct" to some extent, or was treated as an ordinary expression. It seems to match the definition of {mu'mey ru'}:<br>
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<p><span style="background-color:white"></span>"Sometimes words or phrases are coined for a specific occasion, intentionally violating grammatical rules in order to have an impact. Usually these are never heard again, though some gain currency and might as
well be classified as slang. Klingon grammarians call such forms {mu'mey ru'} ("temporary words")."</p>
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<p>I'll confess that when I first used this construction, I didn't realize that it was ungrammatical, so that was just a {Qaghna'}. Now I know, however, and intend to go on using it :)
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<p>If your "special occasion" is "anytime I want to use aspect and <b>-jaj,</b>" then the rule is completely abandoned. When would you
<i>not</i> do it?<br>
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