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Re: Nouns into verbs

• From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
• Subject: Re: Nouns into verbs
• Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 10:44:49 -0500

Perry J. Brulotte writes:
>Okay.  Now I think I've got the <-ghach> thing down.

Let's hope so.

To recap:  DON'T USE {-ghach} ON A VERB WITH NO INTERVENING VERB SUFFIXES!
Unless you're *very* sure of the meaning and the intended effect of doing
so, it's just an ugly thing to do.  Many skilled speakers of the Klingon
language have developed a built-in {-ghach} detector which goes off when a
suspicious use of the suffix is noticed.

>Let's take the reverse.  I want to turn a noun into a verb.
>
>How do I do that?

In general, you don't.  More to the point, though, *why* would you do that?
There's usually a way to express any specific meaning, even though there is
no general way to do it.  What particular noun do you want to turn into a
verb?

-- Alan Anderson, professional programmer and amateur Klingonist

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