tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 30 17:36:08 1996
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Re: translation of "nonbeliever"
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: translation of "nonbeliever"
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 19:41:13 -0500
Qov writes:
>At 16:15 96-08-30 -0700, you [meaning me, ghunchu'wI'] wrote:
>}beHwI"av writes:
>}>...my TKD says {-wI}, thing/one who does, is a type 1 noun suffix.
>}
>}Your TKD is wrong! :-)
>}
>}*My* TKD says {-wI'}, one/thing who is/does, is a type 9 verb suffix!
>}
>}-- Alan Anderson, professional programmer and amateur Klingonist
>
>'ej mu'ghomwIjDaq cha' mojaq vItu'. DIpvaD Doch vIghajbogh 'oS -wI'.
>wotvaD vangbogh nuv 'oS -wI'. mu'ghomraj tIlo'bej 'ach yabraj tIlo' je jay'.
>
>SKI: They are both right. -wI' is less filling AND tastes great.
No, I'm afraid only one of us is right. We were both quite careful to
qualify which {-wI'} we are discussing -- "one/thing who is/does".
TKD does say that {-wI'}, my(language-using), is a type 4 noun suffix
(*not* type 1), but that's not the {-wI'} beHwI"av is confused about.
I believe his confusion stems from the verb suffix first being introduced
in TKD 3.2.2, in the *noun* chapter. It's *introduced* there, but it's
not fully *defined* until TKD 4.2.9.
-- Alan Anderson, professional programmer and amateur Klingonist