[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: chaw'

[lojmIttI'wI'nuv]

You are perfectly right on this and deserve acknowledgement when you are.

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lojmIt tI'wI'nuv



> On Feb 11, 2016, at 1:16 PM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
> 
> On 2/11/2016 1:07 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:
> 
>> Some years ago [I don't have the exact date] Seqram once usefully observed that:
>> 
>>    as soon as you catch yourself saying... {'e' Xlu'}, immediately
>>    start to think seriously about substituting {net X}.
> 
> Except if you're reciting a proverb with it, because proverbs get special dispensation. {yay chavlu' 'e' bajnISlu'} "victory must be earned" (TKW 126) apparently breaks the rule without explanation.
> 
> (Go ahead, list, tell me how I'm interpreting the rules for {net} wrong, and the proverb is perfectly grammatical. I dare you.)
> 
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