tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 30 20:25:21 1997
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Re: Klaa
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klaa
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 97 02:57:53 UT
[email protected] on behalf of peHruS wrote:
> nom yIghoSqu'
> "maximum speed."
>
> I don't like {nom yIghoSchu'}, either.
This is more like "Go perfectly and quickly."
> We know for sure that adverbials (MO called them adverbials, not adverbs,
for some
> reason about which I know nothing)
I'd guess that's because they're lumped into the {chuvmey}, and are not a
true, distinct category to Klingon linguists.
> can take the two of the verb suffixes known as
> rovers: {-be'} and {Ha'}. Although this is the only evidence that
> adverbials can take verb suffixes, I am really stretching the issue here by
> affixing {-chu'} to the adverbial {nom}.
It would be nice, but no. Especially since we HAVE seen how Klaa translates
this sentence.
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