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"as if", and forming adverbs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Apr 26 14:10:03 1993
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From: A.APPLEYARD@fs1.mt.umist.ac.uk
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: 26 Apr 93 09:45:25 GMT
trI'Qal <DOBELBOWER%OPUS@cutter.mco.edu> wrote on 24 Apr 1993 14:38:01 -0400
(EDT) (Subject: mu''IH):-
> ... I found there was no way to say "as if". Looking through the various
type 9 suffixes didn't do a whole lot of good ... "The Stranger walks in my
heart as if it were his own.".
I.e. what Klingon needs is an adverb-forming suffix! I noticed that lack
before. If such a suffix is represented by `X`, we could have, e.g.:-
ghitlh ghaH buQX he writes threateningly
loghX jatlh reH ghaH he always talks like a spaceman
vineH 'e'X bijatlh you talk as if I wanted [to do] it
(And we need a Klingon word for legal possession / ownership)
