<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I think that clipped Klingon is most appropriate when there is urgency to the message, as in battle. If someone says {nuqDaq puchpa’}, then point to the bathroom and get out of the way. <div><br></div><div>I don’t see {nuq mI’lIj} as obviously urgent, unless shouted by a suspicious guard pointing the unfriendly end of a nasty weapon at you. </div><div><br></div><div>In other settings, I’d just consider it poor grammar spoken by an illiterate, uneducated, backwoods peasant, or maybe a local who is speaking loud and slow for a tourist he considers an idiot who has to look up every word in a guidebook. </div><div><br></div><div>But that’s just an opinion. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone. <br><div>charghwI’</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 9, 2019, at 1:51 PM, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/9/2019 1:13 PM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<div dir="auto">There's the {nuq mI'lIj}, and there's the {nuq 'oH
mI'lIj'e'}.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Is the {nuq 'oH mI'lIj'e'} more "formal" than the
{nuq mI'lIj} ?</div>
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<p>Given that we know <b>nuqDaq puchpa'</b> is the clipped version
of <b>nuqDaq 'oH puchpa''e',</b> I would expect <b>nuq mI'lIj</b>
to be the clipped version of <b>nuq 'oH mI'lIj'e'.</b><br>
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