tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 24 12:14:07 1997
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Re: KLBC: -vaD
>Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 22:30:01 -0800 (PST)
>From: [email protected] (Scott D. Randel)
>
>Can the N-5 suffix -vaD ("for, intended for") be used to mean "on
>behalf of," as the English "for" can? As an example, Dr. Seuss's
>Lorax would say "I speak for the trees." Would {SormeyvaD vIjatlh}
>mean the same thing?
Oooh! Intriguing. Something about that sounds somewhat nice to me. But I
don't think I want to go there. It's a little too much load to compete
with the far more common "I speak to the trees"; the "represent" meaning
simply would be selected against through disuse, and would have to be
represented, as I think charghwI' suggested, with 'oS.
~mark