tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 08 22:54:15 1995
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Re[7]: }}} Dialects (was:...
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re[7]: }}} Dialects (was:...
- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 21:54:15 -0500
I wrote:
>Try instead "emperor's female" and it sounds much better. Remember that
>Klingon puts two nouns together to indicate a possessive construction.
r'Hul writes:
>Where does TKD say that? According to page 19 a compound noun is just a
>compound noun. <ta'be'> is a compound noun. <ta' be'> is possessive. Then I
>would accept it.
Check TKD section 3.4, pages 30-31, where it actually describes how to
translate the compound nouns mentioned in section 3.2.1, page 19: "...this
is the Klingon possessive construction...."
-- ghunchu'wI'