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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Like so much of Klingon grammar, Okrand’s examples were short single sentence, not connected text, so we don’t really know. I would mark the first sentence/clause
with {net jalchugh} as sort of an “irrealis stamp” to set the scene for the entire sentence/paragraph/story, etc.– like a time stamp or place stamp. E.g.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt"> I am a giant {net jalchugh}: Because I live in a castle above the clouds, I am happy. Etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I’m sure the others will have their own suggestions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">--Voragh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">There is a problem I've been having, which I don't know how to overcome.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">If I want to write a story in english, a story written in irrealis (if that's how we say it), then I can write:<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>"If I was a giant, and I was living in a castle above the clouds, I would be happy.
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</span>And if my kingdom had many soft and furry cats.."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">In Klingon, in order to write something as the above, we have the {net jalchugh}.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">However, (and here is my problem), if I want to write an entire story in irrealis, then what do I do ?<span style="color:#1F497D"><br>
</span>Do I place the {net jalchugh} after each and every sentence ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">In the above example would I need to write {I am a giant net jalchugh, and I live in a castle above the clouds net jalchugh, I am happy net jalchugh..} ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">Wouldn't this make the reader "tired", reading the {net jalchugh} after each and every sentence ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">Is there any other way of approaching this ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">~ nI'ghma<o:p></o:p></p>
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