tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Apr 12 18:39:27 1997
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Re: SopDaq
- From: Bill Willmerdinger <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: SopDaq
- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 21:18:52 -0400
- Organization: IKV Crystal Dagger, Klingon Assault Group Rochester NY
- References: <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> How far may we go in constructing new words from the existing roots?
I suppose my {yoymoHwI'} provoked this. There's nothing obscure about
{yoymoHwI'}; it's a a straightforward application of two verb suffixes
to a verb. This isn't going very far at all; in fact it's rather
conservative since it very *clearly* means "thing which causes
(something) to be upside down". It only looks like a stretch because I
called it an "inverter" instead of an "upside-down maker" (which is
*really* bad English).
> Recently I have seen {paqghom} for "library" with no negative comments following.
"Book-group" for "library" is understandable, if not perfect.
> We know that {QongDaq} is canon for "bed." May I use {SopDaq} for "dining table"?
Haven't we covered this a dozen times? {SopDaq} is verb+noun, and we
have no grammatical license to do that.
> How about {ghItlhDaq} for "escritoire"?
Huh? Time for a bigger dictionary than my desktop Webster's! Or is it
even English? It looks French, and my knowledge of French is minimal;
something about writing, obviously.
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