jIH:
One could wonder, whether in the alien language of Klingon (which is so alien that is crawling with terran puns), the {vay'} has the same "informal" character as in English. SuStel: Wait, you're suggesting that vay' is informal because Okrand mentioned the word somebody in the gloss but not the word someone?
No, not at all! The "which is so alien that is crawling with terran puns" part of the sentence was written, because I was fed up by all the "klingon-alien-language" crap. It wasn't my intention to imply that because there are a ton of terran puns, we need to attribute to the {vay'} conclusions drawn from English. Sorry for not clarifying this from the start. It's just that my disgust for all this "alien crap" bled through to the original post. ~ Dana'an