[985] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: verbs in compounds (was: Re: epithets (taHqeq))
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jun 15 09:24:49 1993
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From: A.APPLEYARD@fs1.mt.umist.ac.uk
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: 15 Jun 93 12:12:38 GMT
> ... I *certainly* can't see any justification for building such syntax
into an analyser, which, by definition is expected to adhere strictly to the
rules of the language. (Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding the point of an
analyser; my only knowlege of them is what I've picked up from Ken).
My analyser was largely to save the donkey work of looking up everything
in a dictionary. I reckoned that stray illegalities could be picked up by
the user inspecting the analyser output.
> > And `taHqeq` can likewise be read bahuvrihi as "someone whose `qeq` is
`taH`" = "someone whose army drill is enduring or at a negative angle".
> Again, this is true only if/when it is established that Klingon supports
bahuvrihi in the same manner as English. --Krankor
This sounds like another query to be passed to Marc Okrand.
Another sort of compound which is legal in English is noun+adj (Klingon:
noun+verb), e.g. `Hichqar` = "accurate (using a) handgun".
