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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: jaw
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Thu Nov 3 10:44:16 2011
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:43:57 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <C305E6BD33E2654DAE1F8F403247B6A6031E43D02D8D@EVS02.ad.uchicago.edu>
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On 11/3/2011 10:40 AM, Steven Boozer wrote:
>
>> Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, November 03, 2011
>>
>> Klingon word: jaw
>> Part of speech: verb
>> Definition: chat
>
> Never used in canon.
>
> Note the related verbs of speech beginning with {ja-}:
>
> jatlh "say, speak"
> ja' "tell, report"
> jach "scream, cry out"
> jang "answer, reply"
> jat "speak incoherently, mumble (slang) [< {jat} "tongue" (n.)]
>
> PUN: to "jaw"!
Note that "verbs of speech" doesn't mean it can be used with the special
sentence-as-object construction for direct quotation. Only {ja'} and
{jatlh} can do that, so far as we know. Okrand listed these once somewhere.
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SuStel
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