On 10/6/2016 2:22 PM, Ed Bailey wrote:

I just realized, Aurélie, that you began this thread with the salutation <Hoch Savan>, but it seems not to have elicited comment. I wish I had a darsek for every time I've been corrected for using such a construction, in which a noun stands in the place of a first or second person subject or object. Some think this violates the rule of rom <accord>, which says the prefix must agree with the subject and object, because (and this is the part I dispute) nouns, common or proper, are inherently third person. This second part is not a rule in Klingon, and I maintain that in such cases the noun is an appositive to the unexpressed pronoun.

I interpreted it as direct address: Hoch, Savan everyone, I salute you.