If you need to choose, I would use {voDleH} if only because {ta’} (accomplish) occurs often in Klingon as a suffix, verb, and noun as well as an element in other nouns: e.g. {jonta'} engine, {lIngta'} lingta (type of animal), {mellota'} Mellota (proper name), {mIqta'} machinery, {qoSta'} ribbon/tape, {raHta'} racht (type of food), {'evta'} type of animal similar to a newt/salamander, etc. OTOH if both words are still actively used in the “modern” language, {ta’} may be preferred for official ranks (e.g. {Voragh ta’} Emperor Voragh) since most common ranks or titles are one syllable words (HoD, Sa’, la’, joH, Qang, etc.). That would leave {voDleH} available for descriptions or other statements (e.g. tlhIngan wo’ voDleH wa’DIch ghaH qeylIS’e’ “Kahless was the first emperor of the Klingon Empire”). [BTW I just overlooked another example of {ta’} in {ta'puq} “prince” from The Little Prince.] -- Voragh ____________________________________________________________________ From: mayqel qunen'oS voragh:
I can’t see any real difference in usage. Can you?
Me neither. I just *feel* as a more "formal" word the {voDleH} compared to the {ta'}, but of course this is just a "feeling". What I do wonder though, is whether in a looong text e.g. the new testament, I should choose one of the two and stick with it, or use them interchangeably. But I guess there's no answer to that. But if there *is* one, qeylIS knows, I would like to hear it..