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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] whatculture's "10 Things You Must Know When
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI')
Thu Feb 28 19:13:56 2013
From: ghunchu'wI' <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
In-Reply-To: <512FAA81.2000107@trimboli.name>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:38:44 -0500
To: Klingon language email discussion forum <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On Feb 28, 2013, at 2:05 PM, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> wrote:
> On 2/28/2013 1:50 PM, Robyn Stewart wrote:
>> Nice detective work. I'm going with HInayneS/HISawneS on my twitter feed.
>
> I wouldn't use {-neS}: it doesn't just mean "polite," it means "polite to a superior." Unless you're proposing to your captain...
...or you're adopting the customary proposal pose of kneeling before the proposee. Even if putting your victim^H^H^H^H^H^Htarget^H^H^H^H^H^Hintended above you is more figurative than literal, I think {-neS} is a perfectly valid suffix in the context of asking someone to marry you.
The equivalent formula in Klingon culture is apparently somewhat less deferent and more to the point.
-- ghunchu'wI'
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