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"as if", and forming adverbs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Apr 27 09:34:39 1993
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From: (Mark E. Shoulson) <shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 93 08:45:08 -0400
In-Reply-To: A.APPLEYARD@fs1.mt.umist.ac.uk's message of 26 Apr 93 09:45:25 GMT
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> 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
Definitely. This is one of the things I wish Okrand would help us out
with. Adverbials should not be such a closed class, or at least they
should be far more numerous. I'm not sure such a putative suffix would
behave as described above, but I would like to see something that could
make adverbials out of, say, verbs.
~mark
