On Mar 5, 2019, at 09:03, Daniel Dadap <daniel@dadap.net> wrote:

I still think the question is a valid one.

Maybe it should be rephrased to: “What does {chevchuq tlhInganpu' romuluSnganpu' je} mean?” I don’t have a good intuition to what it might.

We have chev in a canonical sentence: 'uSDaj chop, chev! Chew his arm off! (clipped). The second sentence is presumabbly short for either 'oH yIchev separate it! or bIH tIchev separate them!, in which case the subject of chev is not the thing separated but the cause of the separation; the object gets separated.

chevchuq tlhInganpu' romuluSnganpu' apparently means The Klingons and the Romulans separate each other. That is, the Klingons and the Romulans both work to make the Klingons and the Romulans move away from each other.

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