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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Multiple verb suffixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Stewart)
Tue Apr 15 00:20:49 2014
From: "Robyn Stewart" <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
To: <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
In-Reply-To: <0249EFBD-AF9D-490B-B5FE-FF4D958A02FC@alcaco.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:20:33 -0700
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Having met 'eD and recalling one of his weaknesses, I suspect that he didn't
intentially misorder the suffices, that he wasn't actually proposing the
suffixes be ordered incorrectly, just trying to recall a sentence like:
DuHeghrupmoHlaH vs. DuHeghmoHlaH
To my reading -laH acts slightly differently in the two constructions, but I
won't give my interpretation so I don't bias yours.
- Qov
-----Original Message-----
From: ghunchu'wI' [mailto:qunchuy@alcaco.net]
Sent: April 14, 2014 21:01
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Multiple verb suffixes
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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