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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Verbs and nouns ; How were they chosen ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Tue Dec 1 13:35:05 2015
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From: Lieven <levinius@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 19:34:53 +0100
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Am 01.12.2015 um 19:11 schrieb qunnoQ HoD:
> Has Okrand commented,on how he chose which words were meant to exist
> solely as verbs,while others to exist as verbs and nouns too ?
I don't know any direct sources, but as far as I know, he really just =
did this randomly.
You must also note that verbs being nouns and verbs happen very often in =
english while it does not so in other languages.
for instance "drink" verb/noun
German: trinken/Getr=E4nk
French: boire/boisson
> I think that the ratio verbs/nouns influences a lot the way we express
> things in Klingon ;
It is a common advice (again I don't know the source) that Klingon is =
very much "action"-based, i.e. using more verbs than nouns. For =
instance, don't say "He has great knowledge" but say "He knows a lot". =
(okay, that's a bad example but you got the point)
-- =
Lieven L. Litaer
aka Quvar valer 'utlh
Grammarian of the KLI
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