<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 22:57, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</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">
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<div>On 9/28/2020 4:40 PM, SuStel wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">“May
Klingons endure!”
<p>That's one possible interpretation. Here's another: it's
Clipped Klingon, short for <b>tlhIngan maH. mataHjaj!</b></p>
<p>And yet another: a noun has elided: <b>tlhIngan maH. taHjaj
ghu'vam!</b></p>
<p>Or a more specific one: <b>tlhIngan maH. taHjaj wo'!</b></p>
<p>Or maybe this is an example of a verb whose subject is just so
well understood that it's never actually stated, like when a
Klingon feels water falling from the sky and says<b> SIS.</b>
What is the subject of <b>SIS?</b> Nothing specific, but we
understand the sentence all the same.</p>
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<p>Or another: it's really <b>tlhIngan maHtaHjaj</b><i> May we
continue to be Klingons.</i></p></div></blockquote></div><div>This was the original intended interpretation. Qov retroactively changed it into two sentences because the Appendix to TKD says, in Sec. 4.2.9, that when {-jaj} is used, "there is never a Type 7 aspect suffix". (This rule has been contradicted in canon by {wo' DevtaHjaj ghawran} on KGT p.25-26).</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>