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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/12/2020 1:41 PM, Luis Chaparro
Caballero wrote:</div>
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Suppose you are discussing how you can go somewhere and I want to give you the information that I have a car and I want to help. Is it right if I say: *puH Duj vIghaj*? *puH Duj vIghaj jIH* would only make sense if I want to be extra clear, right?
And if someone asks: *puH Duj ghaj 'Iv?*, which one would be the "normal" or "usual" answer in Klingon? Once again, *vIghaj jIH* would only be used if we want to be very clear or we want to be sure people understand us, right? So maybe *vIghaj* or simply *jIH*?</pre>
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<p><b>puH Duj vIghaj</b> and <b>puH Duj vIghaj jIH</b> are both
perfectly acceptable. You are not forbidden from using an explicit
pronoun whenever you want. If you did it all the time, Klingons
would probably think you're speaking in a funny way, but that's
all. If you do it one time for no reason, I don't think any of
them would even notice.</p>
<p>The answer to <b>puH Duj ghaj 'Iv</b> could be <b>puH Duj
vIghaj, puH Duj vIghaj jIH,</b> or <b>puH Duj vIghaj jIH'e',</b>
depending on what you want to emphasize. If you just want to state
the fact without any embellishment, you might say <b>puH Duj
vIghaj.</b> If you want to stress the <b>jIH, </b>kind of like
raising your hand to be noticed, you might say <b>puH Duj vIghaj
jIH</b> and say the <b>jIH</b> extra loudly. ("Ooh! Ooh! *I*
have a car!" You're not excluding someone else from having a car.
And you'd have to say the <b>jIH</b> loudly. Just saying <b>jIH</b>
without stressing it isn't enough.) If you want to say that YOU
have the car, not somebody else, you'd say <b>puH Duj vIghaj
jIH'e'.</b><br>
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