<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 11 Apr 2022 at 13:51, mayqel qunen'oS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com">mihkoun@gmail.com</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"><div dir="auto">There's a chancellor who goes by the names of ghawran, torgh, valQIS, and several other names as well.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I want to say "they call the chancellor as ghawran, torgh, valQIS, and by several other names".</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So I write:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">QangvaD ghawran, torgh, valQIS, latlhmey je luponglu'</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Or perhaps:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">QangvaD ghawran, torgh, valQIS, latlh pongmey je luponglu'</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Are the above two klingon sentences correct? Or do these sentences actually say that "they call the chancellor ghawran, torgh, valQIS, and they call him {latlhmey}/{latlh pongmey} as well"?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Does the presence of the {latlhmey}/{latlh pongmey} in the "name slot" of the {XvaD Y ponglu'} construction necessarily mean that they are to be understood as actual names, instead of normal words?</div></div>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>There's no problem with interpreting them as normal words meaning "others, other names". A number of known Klingon names are common words, and they haven't caused any serious problems. I expect that, were some Klingon to name their child {latlhmey} for some weird reason, and you wanted to say "they're called ghawran, torgh, valQIS, and 'latlhmey' ", you'd have to indicate that by marking the name {latlhmey} somehow when writing in Klingon (like I did in English with quotation marks).</div><div><br></div><div>Also, consider the expressions {latlh je}, {latlh latlh latlh}, and {taH taH taH} (which were revealed at qep'a' cha'maH javDIch).</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>