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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/24/2020 8:48 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<div dir="auto">We say:</div>
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<div dir="auto">puH Duj </div>
<div dir="auto">muD Duj </div>
<div dir="auto">bIQ Duj </div>
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<div dir="auto">However, we say:</div>
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<div dir="auto">veSDuj </div>
<div dir="auto">may'Duj </div>
<div dir="auto">toQDuj</div>
<div dir="auto">tlharghDuj </div>
<div dir="auto">lupDujHom</div>
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<div dir="auto">And there is the {paq Duj} too, which since we
don't have any of those in greece, I don't know what it is, nor
do I care to find out either..</div>
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<div dir="auto">Now, from the examples above ({paq Duj}, whatever
the ghe''or it is, aside), it shows that seemingly/apparently in
Ca'Non, when a ship is described on the basis of *where* it
travels, the two words are written separately, but when a ship
is specified on the basis of its' mission, then the two words
are smooshed together..</div>
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<div dir="auto">So, the question arises:</div>
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<div dir="auto">If we want to say "love ship" (as ridiculous as it
may sound), do we need to write {parmaqqay Duj} or
{parmaqqayDuj} ? Or if we need to say "food ship", do we write
{Soj Duj} or {SojDuj} ?</div>
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<div dir="auto">Or is it, that only god (i.e. maltz), has the
right to be smooshing words together ?</div>
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<p>Words get smooshed together when the population using the words
comes to see them as a single word. In English, compound words
often go through the following stages: they start as two words
used together to mean something, then they become hyphenated, then
the hyphen is removed and they're one word. An example: <i>child
care</i> started as two words, later it was hyphenated to <i>child-care,</i>
until finally today it is commonly found as one word, <i>childcare.</i>
We started with <i>electronic mail,</i> which soon became <i>e-mail,</i>
and now the hyphen is rapidly disappearing in dictionaries, to
become <i>email.</i><br>
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<p>The single words that end with <b>Duj</b> probably have their
origin in this. Modern Klingons appear to be more interested in
spaceships than other types of vehicles, such that <b>Duj</b> is
generally thought of as a spaceship by default, without comment.
So they make terms that combine with this default meaning, and the
terms are common enough to be turned into single words. But when
you talk about non-spaceship vehicles, these aren't going to be so
common as to become single words.</p>
<p>We can't create single-word compounds ourselves, because we don't
have access to Klingon culture to determine which words THEY have
decided are common enough to be single words. But <i>love ship</i>
is obviously <b>parmaq Duj,</b> and <i>food ship</i> is
obviously <b>Soj Duj,</b> because neither is likely going to be a
thing for Klingons. But without guessing, we have to assume these
to be the case because we can't assume we'd know which words
Klingons would jam together, any more than we can predict which
words are going to be jammed together in English in the future.<br>
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