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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Loose Klingon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Stewart)
Sun Dec 4 12:36:57 2011
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:33:46 -0800
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From: Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
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At 18:43 28/11/2011, ghunchu'wI' 'utlh wrote:
>On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:11 PM, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> wro=
te:
> > Verbs as nouns
> > These keep showing up.
>
>Example? (I don't consider the paq'batlh chapter titles to be nouns.)
For the record a lot of my nuq bop bom chapter =
titles are verbs or verbal concepts. It just =
seems more natural in Klingon, and I would =
translate many of them into English as nouns =
without trying to imply in any way that they were =
nouns in the Klingon original.
> > what if most verbs can indeed be used as nouns=97at least, the ones tha=
t seem
> > to have obvious meanings as nouns?
>
>There's a basic difficulty with that idea. Different people often have
>different ideas of what is an obvious meaning. It would be nice if we
>didn't have multiple opinions about whether the noun meaning
>would/should refer to the action of the verb, or to its result, or to
>a possible agent, etc.
Hear hear. =
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