tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 02 08:23:04 1995
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Re: Color me "stunned"
>Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 22:58:19 -0500
>Originator: [email protected]
>From: [email protected]
>You mean I finally got something right with "jIjach, bIjach, *ice cream*'e'
>majachchug" ???(ref to SCRABBLE entry).
>Comments Grammerian ~mark? (smile chargwI' !!)
Umm... not really. "jIjach; bIjach" is okay, but the last bit doesn't
work. Assuming you mean "majachchuq" (there's no "g" in Klingon)... it
doesn't make sense: "we scream each other"? *Maybe* interpreted as "we
scream at each other", but then what is "*ice cream*'e'"? It's not the
object (it can't be, since -chuq verbs don't take objects). Actually,
maybe it could be. If we can have "HIqaghQo' qara'pu'" (Okrandian
example), using the prefix as a shorthand for "SoHvaD", maybe this could
work the same way (we scream "ice cream" to each other). I'd not expect
the "-'e'" on it, though.
I might expect "*ice cream*mo' majach" or "*ice cream* wISuqmeH majach"
perhaps.
~mark