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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/31/2019 11:21 AM, Daniel Dadap
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On May 31, 2019, at 10:00, SuStel <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" moz-do-not-send="true"><sustel@trimboli.name></a> wrote:
QaQ jajvam
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">va, vangmeH wot vIbuSqu'taHmo' Doth wot vIlIjchu'pu'!</pre>
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<p><a href="http://klingonska.org/canon/1997-06-29d-news.txt">http://klingonska.org/canon/1997-06-29d-news.txt</a></p>
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<p><i>Though they both can be translated "today," DaHjaj and
jajvam are not quite interchangeable. As the time element in
a sentence, DaHjaj (and not jajvam) is used:</i><i><br>
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<p><i>DaHjaj romuluSngan vIHoHpu' "today I killed a Romulan"<br>
(DaHjaj "today," romuluSngan "Romulan," vIHoHpu' "I have
killed him/her")</i></p>
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<p>(Notice, unbelievers, the perfective used on an event that was
completed during the stated time expression, not before, and which
is translated into English as both simple past tense and present
perfect tense!)<br>
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<p><i>As the subject of a sentence, on the other hand, jajvam is
more typically found:</i></p>
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<p><i>nI' jajvam "this day is long"<br>
(nI' "[it] is long [in duration], jajvam "this day")</i></p>
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<p><i>though DaHjaj is not impossible:<br>
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<p><i>nI' DaHjaj "today is long" (nI' "[it] is long [in
duration], DaHjaj "today")</i></p>
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<p>Ah, but wait!</p>
<p>KGT:<br>
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<p><i>The son of a Klingon is a man the day he can first hold a
blade.</i><br>
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<b>wa' jaj 'etlh 'uchchoHlaH tlhIngan puqloD; jajvetlh loD nen
moj.</b><br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
SuStel
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://trimboli.name">http://trimboli.name</a></pre>
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