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Re: Klingon Insults

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Feb 27 14:14:36 1994

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I had mentioned:

>> Last summer, one of the first things I said to Krankor in
>> Klingon was "SoSlI' je," my attempt at "So's your mother!"
>> spoken with all the derision and scorn I could put into it.

~mark replied with:

> Awww... come on... that's *just* what the pejorative
> possessives are for! "SoSlIj je" would carry the scorn even
> if the intonation weren't strong enough.

What can I say?  I wanted to be mean spirited, but grammatically correct too.
 ;)

Lawrence

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