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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Multiple verb suffixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI')
Tue Apr 15 00:01:00 2014
From: ghunchu'wI' <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
In-Reply-To: <CABSTb1dTgJ54BfmPwCMoVf-NwcE8EL=CRz1ohP3DZdaeenceXQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 00:00:40 -0400
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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On Apr 14, 2014, at 11:14 PM, "Bellerophon, modeler" <bellerophon.modeler@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wish now I could remember the example someone on this list cited, in which they interpreted a suffix as applying to the verb + the following suffix. It seems like it was something along the lines of {lo'moHlaH}, interpreted as "make usable" instead of "can cause to use." At the time I had no more reason to question this interpretation than a vague feeling.
>
> It seems like the combined action of multiple suffixes would be an important grammatical rule, though I have never seen one stated.
Power Klingon's suggested formula for declining an offered liaison:
DaH jIbwIj vISay'nISmoH
"I must wash my hair now."
Suffixes come in a specific order. That order does not always lend itself to translation in that rigid order.
-- ghunchu'wI'
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