<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 at 19:16, mayqel qunen'oS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
My problem is with the {tlhIngan maH! taHjaj!}..<br>
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>From the first time I heard it, I felt that something was off with<br>
that sentence; but I knew that since a specific person wrote it, and<br>
it appears in a star trek too, then no one was going to admit that<br>
there is something not quite right with that sentence.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That sentence was originally {tlhIngan maHtaHjaj!} It's precisely because people *did* point out that it may be a problem to use {-taH} and {-jaj} together that it was reinterpreted as two sentences.</div><div><br></div><div>But also:</div><div>{wo' ghawran DevtaHjaj!} (toast)</div><div><br></div><div>Note that there's something like a century (someone else can do the math) between these political slogans. But clearly, whatever TKD says, at some point it became acceptable for the suffixes {-taH} and {-jaj} to be used together. It may even be that {tlhIngan maH! taHjaj!} was re- or mis- interpreted as {tlhIngan maHtaHjaj!}, which was what made {-taHjaj} acceptable.</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>