<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">While I think you have asked a great question, I think it is SO great that it deserves to be TWO questions:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. Is the prefix trick informal, or is it generally accepted in formal contexts.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2. What are the conventions of formality of religious ceremonies?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The second question probably needs different answers for different religions, assuming the Klingon Empire has more than one of them. So far, we are only exposed to one Klingon mythology/religion. Then again, outsiders studying American mythology/religion might think we are a Christian nation with only one religion, ignoring agnosticism, atheism, or the wide spectrum of religions brought to this country by the full scope of immigrants, and those already here among the Indigenous Peoples before the coerced introduction of Christianity and the mostly successful obliteration of native culture and beliefs.</div><br class=""><div class="">
<meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>pItlh</div><div><br class=""></div><div>charghwI’ ‘utlh</div><div>(ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 1, 2022, at 8:05 AM, D qunen'oS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" class="">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Does it make sense to wonder whether the prefix trick is to be used in less formal occasions, than the "full form" of the sentence?<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">For example, in a religious ceremony comes a point where one needs to say to the other "and now I give you the knife".</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">There are two options:</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">taj qanob</div><div dir="auto" class="">SoHvaD taj vInob</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Is the prefix trick version less formal than the other?<br class=""><br class=""><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto" class="">-- <br class="">Dana'an<br class=""><a href="https://sacredtextsinklingon.wordpress.com/" class="">https://sacredtextsinklingon.wordpress.com/</a><br class="">Ζεὺς ἦν, Ζεὺς ἐστίν, Ζεὺς ἔσσεται· ὦ μεγάλε Ζεῦ</div></div></div>
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