tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 05 12:29:43 1995
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Re: "too many"
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: "too many"
- Date: Fri, 5 May 95 15:30:04 EDT
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Alan Anderson" at May 4, 95 9:47 am
According to Alan Anderson:
>
> charghwI' ja':
> > jabbI'IDmey yapqu' vIHev.
> > [...]
> > Looking at a verb like {yap}, to make it "very" is not very
> > useful compared to making it "too".
>
> Well, {-qu'} doesn't necessarily mean "very" anyway. It is defined as
> "emphatic." TKD 4.3 says "This suffix emphasizes or affirms whatever
> immediately precedes it."
I'm trying to remember the specific example that convinced me
that {-qu'} also meant "too". I think it is from one of the
audiotapes later than I have thus far transcribed, so my
searches don't tend to find it. The last two examples in your
quoted 4.3 translate as "very", so I'm rather confident of
that. Also, a much repeated sentence (TKD page 170, and the
intro to Conversational Klingon and the Klingon Bird-of-Prey
Halodome (complete with sparkles when you shake it and digital
sound chip when you push the button):
tujqu'choH QuQ [The engine is overheating. (example on page
170)]
Here, the engine is becoming too hot. Still, another even
better example eludes me. I'll have to look this weekend...
> -- ghunchu'wI'
charghwI'
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