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Re: Transitive "adjective" verbs
dcctdw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dcctdw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Feb 16 15:19:47 1992
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From: mark@cc.gatech.edu (Mark J. Reed)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Cc: tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 91 13:28:37 EST
In-Reply-To: <9112200436.AA12813@cad.gatech.edu>; from "Charles Edward Maise" a
Eddie Maise wrote:
\I think a valid way to turn verbs such as "be interesting" or "be depressed",
\which are inherently not transitive, into a transitive form is to add
\-moH (Type 4 verb suffix) "cause." Thus:
\
\muDajmoHtaH be'pu'! Women cause me to be interested, or
\ Women interest me!
Except that "Daj" is not "be interested"; it's "be interesting". So
what you just said was "Women cause me to be interesting". Intriguing, but
not quite the intended result. :-) -moH is amazingly useful, but it is not
quite what I was looking for in this case.
--
Mark J. Reed College of Computing Technical Support
<mark@cc.gatech.edu> Georgia Institute of Technology
