[2808] in tlhIngan-Hol
miscellaneous stuff
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 26 12:31:45 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu (Mark E. Shoulson)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 12:27:01 -0500
In-Reply-To: dls9@aol.com's message of Wed, 26 Jan 94 01:34:08 EST <9401260134.
tn94854@aol.com>
>From: dls9@aol.com
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 01:34:08 EST
>3: Another Klingonic anomaly I've dug up is the lack of a word equivalent to
>"short." We have {tIq}, "be long," refering to physical objects, and {nI'},
>"be long," refering to time periods. However, it's unusual that Klingon lacks
>"be short."
There ought to be a word for "short". We'll have to make do with
"tIqbe'/Ha'" until we find out what it is, but I believe there probably is
one to be invented.
>A rendering of "short phaser" might come out as *{pu' tIqHa'}, or *{pu'
>tIqbe'}, but I doubt this is correct usage, since a reading of TKD 4.4 on
>Adjectives implies that only {-qu'} can be tacked onto an adjectival verb.
... which is somewhat contradicted by the also canonical "wa'maH yIHmey
lI'be'" in CK. Take your pick; I'm willing to by "-be'" and "-Ha'" on
adjectives, for the moment anyway.
>Guido#1, Leader of All Guidos
~mark
