On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 22:57, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:

On 9/28/2020 4:40 PM, SuStel wrote:

“May Klingons endure!”
That's one possible interpretation. Here's another: it's Clipped Klingon, short for tlhIngan maH. mataHjaj!

And yet another: a noun has elided: tlhIngan maH. taHjaj ghu'vam!

Or a more specific one: tlhIngan maH. taHjaj wo'!

Or maybe this is an example of a verb whose subject is just so well understood that it's never actually stated, like when a Klingon feels water falling from the sky and says SIS. What is the subject of SIS? Nothing specific, but we understand the sentence all the same.

Or another: it's really tlhIngan maHtaHjaj May we continue to be Klingons.

This was the original intended interpretation. Qov retroactively changed it into two sentences because the Appendix to TKD says, in Sec. 4.2.9, that when {-jaj} is used, "there is never a Type 7 aspect suffix". (This rule has been contradicted in canon by {wo' DevtaHjaj ghawran} on KGT p.25-26).

De'vID