<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/6/2018 11:51 AM, nIqolay Q wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite"
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 same
idea?</blockquote>
<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.<br>
</p>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
SuStel
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://trimboli.name">http://trimboli.name</a></pre>
</body>
</html>