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