tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 08 11:51:14 1995
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Re[8]: }}} Dialects (was:...
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- Subject: Re[8]: }}} Dialects (was:...
- Date: Tue, 08 Aug 95 10:51:14 EST
On Tue, 8 Aug 1995 ~mark wrote:
>>bItuHmoH'egh. (As she shakes her finger at him.)
>"-'egh" is a type-1 suffix, so it has to come first. "bItuH'eghmoH".
>Yes, I know that sounds counter-intuitive, but the suffix-ordering is
>fixed.
Wait a second. <tuHmoH> is the verb "to shame". I can't believe that you break
up words. I didn't want to say "You cause yourself to be ashamed."
>This is okay for "You shame yourself"... but are you trying for "you should
>be ashamed of yourself"? Maybe "bItuHnIS!" or "yItuH!" would work better.
It was supposed to be "Shame on you." I figured "You shame yourself" was close.
I think you are reading too much into it again. ;-)
>~mark
r'Hul