tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 23 15:30:12 1996
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RE: KLBC
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC
- Date: Mon, 23 Dec 96 22:54:54 UT
December 23, 1996 9:09 AM, jatlh loDDoq:
> bIyIn nuqDaq?
> where do u live?
You always put {nuqDaq} at the beginning of a sentence (or rather, it goes
where a noun with a {-Daq} suffix would go).
nuqDaq bIyIn?
"Huntington, New York"-Daq jIyIntaH.
> bImIgh
> you are evil!
jIH?!? bInep!
> mem Dalegh
> see the cataog(I didnt believe when I saw there's a word for catalog !?)
I can just imagine Okrand searching for new words to add to the dictionary.
He's stuck for a new one, his eyes search around the room, they see today's
mail, there's a catalogue . . .
If this is a command ("Look at the catalogue!"), then you must use an
imperative prefix, and not a regular verb prefix.
mem yIlegh
> (vI?)pIn jIH
> he's my boss(I had a problem with that sentence;how do I say it?)
pInwI' ghaH.
Again, this sort of sentence is explained in TKD section 6.3. I've used the
Type 4 noun suffix, {-wI'}, here.
> maqach
> we are building
{qach} is a noun! This would be best expressed as
machenmoH
We are causing to take form.
One would usually specify *what* one is building.
> juH maqach(Daq?)
> we're building a house
juH wIchenmoH.
We are building a home.
Note, this is not the same thing as "house." There is no known word for
"house" in the sense of "building for living in" (maybe {yInmeH qach}).
> yIDachen
> Build it!
Ah! You chose to use {chen} after all! Now, you cannot use an imperative
prefix and a regular prefix at the same time! Also, you must use the {-moH}
suffix. {yIchen} is just "take form!" but {yIchenmoH} is "cause it to take
form!" or "Build it!"
--
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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