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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: choH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Qov)
Wed Jan 18 12:45:26 2012
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:40:12 -0800
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
From: Qov <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
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At 07:14 18/01/2012, Steven Boozer wrote:
> > Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, January 18, 2012
> >
> > Klingon word: choH
> > Part of speech: verb
> > Definition: alter, change
>
>As used in canon:
>
>DaH Heraj yIchoH
>Alter your course now. (ST5 notes)
>
>HIvHe yIchoHmoH
>Alter the attack course! ST5
This is interesting. Someone recently posted citing HIvHe yIchoHmoH
as evidence that choH requires -moH to be transitive, yet that
contradicts both the example from the ST5 notes and the gloss of
"alter," which in English is always transitive.
I'm slowly tending towards a belief that Klingon is like English in
its acceptance of many common verbs meaning both to do the thing to
another and to have the thing done, with perhaps -moH and -'egh. I
want to preserve the things that are Klingon and not have tlhIngan
Hol become a Klinglish creole, but it's the price for expanded use of
the language.
- Qov
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