[Tlhingan-hol] Names and address

qunnoQ HoD mihkoun at gmail.com
Sun Nov 8 05:11:43 PST 2015


thank you very much for the reply and the corrections !

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Rohan Fenwick <qeslagh at hotmail.com> wrote:

> ghItlhpu' qunnoQ, jatlh:
> > As I read in TKD,names can be used in direct address at the beginning
> > or end of a sentence.
> > lets assume I want to say <<hail gowron>>. does this mean that both
> > {qavam gowron} and {gowron qavam} are equally right ?
>
> Yep! Absolutely correct. Though watch a couple of things - not relevant to
> your point, but still important: the verb "hail, salute" is {van}, not
> *{vam}; also, we know how Gowron's name is spelled in Klingon, and it's
> {ghawran} (KGT pp. 25-26).
>
> So yes, either {ghawran, qavan} or {qavan, ghawran} is fine.
>
> QeS 'utlh
>
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