tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 15 08:46:57 1996
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Re: result of verb?
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>Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 12:54:37 -0700
>From: [email protected] (JEFF ZEITLIN)
> What I need is some way of indicating the product/result of a
> verb - for example "evaluate (v)" -> "evaluation (n)". Using
> the -wI' suffix is clearly not correct; that would give me
> "evaluator (n)".
This was Krankor's major complaint about Okrand's comments about -ghach;
that it took away much of what we had. Can we count on -ghach to be the
object of the verb (a feature A.Appleyard often wishes for)? Or the
result? Or the action? Welllllllll, not necessarily, it would seem. Or
so the interview said, IIRC.
> The context is approximately "I have examined the information
> you have provided; my evaluation is that...".
There *is* "'e' vIwuq" or some such at the end, of course, which is
probably the best and most naturally Klingon way of doing things. You can
do stuff like "'ej qechmeyvam vIwuq: Dogh qeSlIj, etc..." It's again a
matter of thinking in verbs instead of nouns. charghwI' gives the example
of the English idiom "give me your answer" where Klingon would more simply
do "answer me."
> The same construction could also be useful in the context of
> administrative forms - for example, the last box on a
> personnel review form in the civil service (usually titled
> something like "Evaluation").
These can also be phrased as questions.
~mark
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