On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 4:18 PM Will Martin <willmartin2@mac.com> wrote:
I really think you are taking {Do’Ha’} and {qay’be’} and other fossilized, common responses to situations too seriously.
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Consider {rIntaH} and {qar’a’?}. You can’t look at these and derive general rules about Klingon grammar.
I acknowledged in my post that *rInta**H* and *qar'a'* are weird examples. (Although in TKD their weirdness is just in where they go in the sentence: the translation of *rIntaH* as "it continues to be finished" or "it remains accomplished" isn't presented as being in any way unusual.) But do you have any justification whatsoever for arguing that *Do'Ha'* and *qay'be'* are fossilized forms rather than ordinary sentences? Did I miss a memo from Maltz somewhere? (Or are you just mad that your stylistic preference isn't supported by canon?)