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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Or you could use {neH} which doesn’t require {‘e’} as its object: { ‘e’ vIlIj DaneH'a'? }<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">Or you could replace the first {‘e’} with a noun: { chomaghta' ‘ej ta’lIj / ta’vam vIlIj ‘e’ DapIH'a'? } I also like that the verb suffix {-ta’} is echoed
by the noun {ta’}.<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:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> nIqolay Q<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 15, 2019 10:47 AM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">You can probably lose one of the {'e'}s. {chomaghta'. vIlIj 'e' DapIH'a'...} It's not unheard of to have an unstated third-person object that refers to the situation
in general. "You betrayed me. Do you expect me to forget it?" (Don't forget the {-'a'} if you're writing a question.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">You might also find a way to use {ghet} "pretend" to get across the notion of "behave as if something were true". {chomaghta'. qaS pagh 'e' vIghet DaneH'a'?} "You
betrayed me. Do you want me to pretend nothing happened?" (This also removes an {'e'} by using the one verb that doesn't take it.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">There's also the time-honored tradition of appealing to Klingon cultural mores as a reason to rephrase it entirely and remove the question. {chomaghta'. qaS pagh 'e'
vIghetQo'.} "You betrayed me. I won't pretend that nothing happened."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">There's a line {naDev qaS wanI' ramqu'} from Star Trek III and TKD, translated as "There's nothing happening here" but literally "Very insignificant events happen
here." So perhaps a better idiom for "nothing happened" is something like {ramqu' wanI'}. {chomaghta'. ramqu' wanI' 'e' vIghet DaneH'a'?} "You betrayed me. Do you want me to pretend the event was utterly insignificant?"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Also, stringing together two {'e'}s is probably fine as long as the sentences aren't very complicated otherwise. (It'd probably still be grammatical even if the sentences
were complicated, but then it'd be hard to read.) I can't recall any instances in canon, though.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 10:02 AM mayqel qunenoS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">If you wanted to say "you've betrayed me, and you expect me to behave<br>
as if nothing happened ?", how would you say it ?<br>
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The best option I can think of, is perhaps something like {chomaghta';<br>
'e' vIlIj, 'e' DapIH, jIvangtaHvIS ?}<br>
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But I can't say, that I like stringing together two {'e'}s.<br>
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Does someone have a better idea ?<br>
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~mayqel *I love maltz* qunen'oS<br>
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