tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 09 11:06:13 1995
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Re[8]: }}} Dialects (was:...
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re[8]: }}} Dialects (was:...
- Date: Wed, 09 Aug 95 10:06:13 EST
On Tue, 8 Aug 1995 [email protected] wrote:
>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...."
I read and reread that section. But that is not what it says. Section 3.4 is
for *other* compound nouns than the ones discussed in 3.2.1. ("In addition...")
If you look at the examples on page 31, the nouns are not joined. So two nouns
together is a compound noun. Two nouns in a row are possesive. <ta'be'>
emperor female. <ta'_be'> emperor's female.
>-- ghunchu'wI'
r'Hul