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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/6/2018 12:05 PM, SuStel wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/6/2018 11:51 AM, nIqolay Q
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAG84SOtxfYO=ABSp6QuQQ8r5nJb9O5QxrGLa5sV2Ly1rgES5Ww@mail.gmail.com">I'm
curious to know how to use {DI'ruj} in a sentence. Can we use it
to make existential statements? For instance, would something
like {DI'rujDaq 'IDnar tu'be'lu'} be interpreted in the sense of
"Magic doesn't exist/is fictional"? Is {DI'ruj} a location, can
it even take a {-Daq}? Does {'IDnar ngaSbe' DI'ruj} work for the
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<p>I wouldn't automatically assume <b>DI'rujDaq</b> makes any
sense, unless you're talking about a science-fiction story in
which characters are hopping between realities. Your second
version is safer for that reason.</p>
<p>Such a word depends on a conceptual metaphor of "reality is a
place," which we don't know Klingons share. Maybe if there are
hints of this particular conceptual metaphor in canon we could
be more certain of it. I can't think of any offhand. Klingons
might conceptually consider reality to be a state rather than a
place, for instance.</p>
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<p>It occurs to me that even your second sentence construes reality
as a place that can "contain" things. How about these instead:</p>
<p><b>'IDnar chaw'be' DI'ruj<br>
DI'rujmo' qItbe' 'IDnar</b><br>
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