On 8/17/2017 11:18 AM, De'vID wrote:

It might be that Kruge and Valkris come from a region of the Empire
where speaking like this is common.

I think the intention was that this is colloquial standard Klingon, and the stuff we got later, like the stuff in The Klingon Way, is formal standard Klingon. We're just fuddy-duddies.