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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] paq'batlh: COMPARING ADVERBS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon Nov 28 15:05:17 2011
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:05:05 -0600
In-Reply-To: <3EDBFBA2-E16F-4ADD-9B66-F8E206BC78D3@gmail.com>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
Actually, we've seen this use of {-qu'} adding its emphasis to the adverbia=
l before:
nom yIghoSqu' =
Maximum speed. (ST5 notes)
Modifying:
cha'maH vagh vatlhvI' Hong. QIt yIghoS! =
Slow to one quarter impulse power. ST5
produces on this model:
QIt yIghoSqu' =
Minimum speed. (As slowly as possible?)
My own view is that because of Klingon's rigid word order, the ADVERBIAL + =
VERB form a unit and therefore suffixes emphasize - or can emphasize - the =
verbal unit as a whole since advierbials cannot take an affix (with the pos=
sible exception of {-Ha'}). By modifying the example:
tIqIpqu' 'ej nom tIqIp =
Hit them hard and hit them fast. TKW
you may be able to say:
pe'vIl tIqIpqu'
Hit them really, really hard! =
? Hit them as hard as you can! =
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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From: lojmIt tI'wI'nuv [mailto:lojmitti7wi7nuv@gmail.com] =
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 1:22 PM
Anyway, this opens the question of why the {-qu'} applied to the verb appar=
ently adds its meaning to the adverb, instead.
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On Nov 26, 2011, at 5:27 PM, Agnieszka Solska wrote:
There is a line in the book possibly indicating how to compare adverbs:
=A0=A0 Stories travel faster than a khrun =
=A0=A0 nom leng Hun nom lengqu' lut
=A0=A0 (pp 130-131)
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