[2656] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: jIlIH'egh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 19 23:08:37 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: awest@netlink.nix.com (Amy West)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 16:45:56 PST
Reply-To: awest@netlink.nix.com
->this, seeing ~mark's correction brought it back to my attention. If
->you want to say, "It pleases me that I am here," you need to
->rethink the statement in order to get it into Klingon.
->
-> History suggests Krankor might offer {mubelmoH naDev
->jIHtaHghach}. Not everyone likes that particular construction. My
->own preference would be {naDev jIHtaHmo' bIbel}. Anybody else have
->a better or alternate suggestion?
I don't get it.. the first example uses the -ghach
nominalizer, but in the second example, you use a noun
suffix (-mo) without the nominalizer. Why not {naDev jIHtaHgachmo'}?
Since -taH is a verb suffix, I would assume you need the
-gach before you add the -mo'.
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