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Re: ngermey
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jan 22 03:56:23 1993
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From: Captain Krankor <krankor@codex.prds.cdx.mot.com>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 01:53:11 -0500
mIgh? *jIH*???? <evil grin>
jImIghlaw', 'ach Sojmo' 'oHbe' {{;-)
marq, tI qaSopqangqu'moHbej [1]. DaSop*vIp*'a'?.....
--Qanqor
[1] The problem is an interesting one, but I don't think there's any way
around the fact that you *have* to do suffixes in order. -qang is a 2,
so it must precede -moH. Yes, it is ambiguous (at best), because to those
of us with a terran perspective, it may appear to mean "I will certainly make
you very willing to eat" as opposed to the intended "I am certainly very
willing to make you eat". I think we have to just chalk this up to one
of those ambiguities that require context to sort out.
If one were *really* uncomfortable with this, you could perhaps try something
like this:
tI qaSopmoH 'e' vIta'qangqu'bej.
or even
tI DaSop 'e' vIqaSmoH 'e' vIta'qangqu'bej.
This last is perhaps the most cumbersome, but it skirts the *several*
grammatically fuzzy areas (not the least of which is the problem of
deciding which should be the object of Sop. One could write a whole article
just about that issue).
