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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/25/2022 10:02 AM, Will Martin
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:9F85B930-53D5-44FF-AA83-FE001AF5F6E7@mac.com">I concede
your point, though I still think it’s poor form, given that Okrand
gave us a category of words as conjunctions and he gave us a
category of words as adverbials and never suggested that any word
could be both. He apparently considers {vaj} to be both,
simultaneously, and he is humanity’s primary Klingon grammarian.</blockquote>
<p>He's not using it as a conjunction. He's just not being too
concerned about distinguishing one sentence from another. This is
a common theme in Klingon: independent clauses pushed together
when their meanings are tightly bound together. This really
shouldn't surprise us: every type of sentence-as-object exhibits
this same behavior.</p>
<p>And let's not forget that Klingon grammarians consider <b>'ej</b>
and <b>vaj</b> to be ultimately of the same part of speech, so
it's not surprising if the difference between their syntactic
functions is a little vague.<br>
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