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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">1) From paq'batlh, paq'raD, Canto 8, Stanza 11:<br>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">jatlh ‘e’ mevDI’ qeylIS, lop</span></p>
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tugh batlh Heghmo’</span></p>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">‘ej chaq tugh charghmo’</span><br>
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After Kahless's words, they celebrate,<br>
For they may soon die with honor!<br>
For they may soon be victorious!<br>
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Another example is from paq'batlh, paq'raD, Canto 17, Stanza 11:<br>
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batlh SuvtaHjaj chaH</span><br>
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Let endless battle and honor await them!<br>
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...and another, in paq'batlh, paq'raD, Canto 23, Stanza 3:<br>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Hay’chu’ luneHqu’</span></p>
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pe’vIl joqqu’</span></p>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">cha’ tlhIngan tIqDu’</span><br>
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Both Klingon hearts beat,<br>
At their strongest,<br>
In lust for blood.<br>
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...and I believe there are plenty more examples.<br>
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2) Epithets like petaQ appear to function as ordinary nouns. paq'batlh contains petaQ'e', petaQ'a', petaQvam and petaQmey.<br>
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Names also seem to be able to take at least some noun suffixes. paq'batlh gives us qeylIS'e' and qeylISma'.<br>
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Hoch and latlh are marked as nouns in TKD.<br>
HochHom is a standard expression, usually translated as "most" or "greater part". paq'batlh also gives us HochvaD and Hoch'e'.<br>
latlhpu' has also been used in canon. http://klingonska.org/canon/search/?file=1997-06-holqed-06-2.txt&get=source<br>
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I have no idea about numbers. TKD tells us<br>
<pre>Numbers are used as nouns. As such, they may stand alone
as subjects or objects or they may modify another noun.</pre>
However, this may simply be referring to the fact that they can act as stand-alone subjects and objects.<br>
paq'batlh mentions SaD law' to mean "thousands", which is very "noun:ish" of SaD.<br>
My feeling is it should be fine, but I'm far from certain.<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 23, 2013 22:53<br>
<b>To:</b> tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Tlhingan-hol] A few questions about grammar re: adverbials, noun-like words<br>
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<div>Hello! I've got a few questions about some minor points of Klingon grammar. I've been messing around with Klingon for years, and I try to follow the KLI mailing list and the updated lists of new words and canon, but there's still some things I have questions
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1) Is there any canon, one way or the other, on the acceptability of using multiple adverbials in one sentence? DaH tagha' qayaj! ("Now I finally understand you!"), pay' bong Heghpu' ("His death was a sudden accident.") It seems like it should be acceptable,
or at least understandable, but I suppose that could probably be said about a number of utterances now known to be non-grammatical.<br>
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<div>2) Likewise, can epithets, number words, and quantity words be suffixed like regular nouns? To what extent would sentences like the following be permissible:<br>
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<div>DujwIj tI'Ha' taHqeq'a'pu'vetlh! ("Those colossal jackasses botched the repairs on my ship!")<br>
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<div>pIj Seng cha'vam ("These two are trouble.")<br>
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<div>"Neo", wa''a' SoH ("Neo, you are the One.")<br>
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<div>latlhpu' tIvoqQo'. ("Don't trust the others.")<br>
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<div>Hochqoq nuja'pu' ("He told us 'everything'." i.e. "He claims he told us everything but I don't believe him.")</div>
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