tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 19 07:28:29 1997
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New suffix in KGT
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: New suffix in KGT
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 09:25:33 -0500
I was surprised and pleased to see that Okrand has given us a >new verb suffix<:
-la'/-luH, meaning "one can". It should now be possible to translate things
like {ghopDap yoS chIjla'bogh} "navigable asteroid field". True, he says it's
slang and should be avoided unless the speaker is very comfortable with
Klingon culture, but, hey, I'm feeling pretty comfortable with it, and I bet
you are, too.
If Okrand is going to monkey with verb suffixes, I have a suggestion: use
certain
verbs as if they were suffixes. Three prime canditates for me would be {neH},
{Hech} (both as Type 2's) and {chaw'} (as a Type 5), so you could say things
like:
*qama' vIHoHneHbej "I definitely want to kill the prisoner"
*qama' vIHoHHechbej "I definitely intend to kill the prisoner"
*qama' vIHoHchaw'bej "I'm definitely allowed to kill the prisoner"
He could call them recently discovered suffixes, youthful slang or an ad-hoc
grammatical transgression like -la'/-luH.
Well, just an idea from my wishlist...
-- ter'eS
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