tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 29 08:09:23 1996
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RE: KLBC on naming convention
> The verb prefix you've used is {cho-}, which means the object must be "me."
> However, your object is a name, not "me." See the problem?
Not clearly... I'll have to think on that.
> > Just an educated guess from a new veSwI'. (Warrior? Not in TKD.)
>
> Sure it is! Page 191. (You've got the 1992 edition with the white cover,
> right?)
Ah... a section I hadn't found. This clears somethings up.
> The word {veS} is a *noun* which means "war." You cannot add the verb suffix
> {-wa'} to it.
> There is a noun suffix called {-wI'}, but this is the possessive suffix. It
> means "my (referring to beings capable of using language)."
However, isn't it also used as "thing that does" or "someone who
does"? In that translation, <veSwI'> is "someone who does war", or
something like that. Or is it that I can't use a noun as a verb? Ah, I
see now... OK, I'm catching on.
<SuvwI'> it is, then.
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