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Re: pronouns as verbs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Feb 6 16:37:03 1994
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From: erich@bush.cs.tamu.edu (Erich Schneider)
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ghItlh joy'wI' (FHOREIN@ALBION.Bitnet):
>Here's a question that has always been bugging me. Can "jIghaH" be used
>for "I am him"? Or are prefixes on pronouns prohibited?
Ugh. What a monstrous suggestion. "marap jIH ghaH je" is how I would
do it, or just "marap" if the context were clear.
>If "jIghaH" is valid, then could "mughaH matlh" or "matlh vIghaH" be
>another way of saying "I am Maltz"? Of course, most Klingons would use
>"matlh jIH", but I am curious.
Aside from "matlh jIH", these just don't seem right. "matlh vIponglu'"
is another legit way of getting this idea across.
>As far as I can tell the above forms are valid (pronouns can have
>suffixes, so why can't they have prefixes?), but I am not sure.
Well, "jIH" and its relatives are chuvmey, not verbs. Offhand, I can't
think of any canonical examples of pronouns with verbal suffixes; on
the list, we seem to stick to noun suffixes (jIHvaD, jIHvo'). This is
enough evidence for me.
QumpIn 'avrIn
"There is no place for the weak and cowardly in shuffleboard."
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