[2669] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: jIlIH'egh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jan 20 11:26:21 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: Will Martin <whm2m@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 11:13:26 EST
On Jan 19, 7:54pm, Amy West wrote:
> Subject: Re: jIlIH'egh
>
> ->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'.
>
>
> -- Amy West -----------------------------------------------------
I used to suffer the same confusion, until someone pointed me to TKD,
page 175, 4.2.9. {-mo'} is also a VERB suffix, but it didn't become one until
the appendix, so it didn't make it into the affix table. You might want to
annotate your table to add {-mo'} as a type 9 verb suffix. Might as well add
the REST of the new suffixes in the appendix as well.
-- charghwI'
