[86834] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Yet another newbie!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Thu Nov 12 11:57:43 2009
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:54:16 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <596871.84561.qm@web82608.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Terrence Donnelly wrote:
> --- On Thu, 11/12/09, kff@sics.se <kff@sics.se> wrote:
>
>> {jIHvaD De' Danobta' 'e'vaD qatlho'}
>>
>> Ok, I think this is wrong, but I can't figure out how to say
>> 'because'. It's not really 'in order to', so I can't use '-meH', I
>> think. Tricky.
>
> The suffix {-mo'} is what you want. This would eliminate the need for
> {'e'}, which AFAIK never takes any suffixes, anyway. So,
>
> {jIHvaD De' Danobmo' qatlho'}
I think kff may not be aware that THE KLINGON DICTIONARY has an
addendum, and this is where {-mo'} is introduced as a verb suffix.
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