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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/30/2021 7:57 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">In English you have "someone" and "somebody".
In the alien language of Klingon (which is so alien that is crawling
with terran puns), we have: {vay'} (n) "somebody, something, anybody,
anything".
Now, in this page:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.learnersdictionary.com/qa/difference-between-someone-and-somebody" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.learnersdictionary.com/qa/difference-between-someone-and-somebody</a>
We read the following:
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One could wonder, whether in the alien language of Klingon (which is
so alien that is crawling with terran puns), the {vay'} has the same
"informal" character as in English.</pre>
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<p>Wait, you're suggesting that <b>vay'</b> is informal because
Okrand mentioned the word <i>somebody</i> in the gloss but not
the word <i>someone?</i> That doesn't make any sense on many
levels. Here's one: if <b>vay'</b> is informal, what's the formal
version?</p>
<p>Okrand wasn't looking for every synonym for <i>somebody</i> when
he wrote that gloss. Since <i>somebody</i> and <i>someone </i>are
more or less interchangeable, he just included one of them. I have
no doubt any data about <i>someone</i> being used more often in
formal contexts never even crossed his mind when he wrote it.<br>
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