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Re: Relative clauses; passive of verb; etc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Apr 21 18:48:18 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: Wed, 21 Apr 93 15:54:06 -0400
Here's a response to just a couple things from A.APPLEYARD's recent post.
(7) You absolutely cannot put -lu' and -laH on the same verb, no way, uh-uh,
forget about it. Not only is the dictionary completely clear on this point,
but when I talked to Okrand himself about it, he was very firm about it.
(9) What's an indirect question?
(10) You cannot just go blithely presumming that a suffix can be used as a
separate word. However, often, there is a good verb you can stick a verb suffi
x
with to get mostly-just-the-verb-suffix meaning. For example, there's no separ
ate
verb for "to need", though there is the suffix "-nIS". One solution is to use
ghajnIS (in this case, another common solution is to use poQ). So for "to caus
e"
as a separate verb, I would use qaSmoH.
--Krankor
